ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,151, issued on June 17, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Non-volatile memory stored with encoded data" was invented by Win-San Khwa (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jui Jen Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jen-Chieh Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Meng-Fan Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a memory storage having bit cells, a write path switch configured to have a connection state determined by a reliability indicator, and a write driver having an input configured to receive an input data from a write terminal through either a first write path or a second write pa...