US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on June 17 for "Bitcell supporting bit-write-mask function" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,145, issued on June 17, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Bitcell supporting bit-write-mask function" was invented by Hidehiro Fujiwara (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yen-Huei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yi-Hsin Nien (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An SRAM includes multiple memory cells, each memory cell includes a data storage unit; a data I/O control adapted to input data to, and output data from, a data line; and multiple access controls respectively connected to at least two access control lines (WL's) and adapted to enable and disable the data input and output from the at leas...