ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,199, issued on March 18, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Multi-bit structure" was invented by Shao-Lun Chien (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Chun Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hui-Zhong Zhuang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chih-Liang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Li-Chun Tien (Tainan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit is provided and includes a multi-bit cell having multiple bit cells disposed in multiple cell rows. The bit cells include M bit cells, M being positive integers. A first bit cell of the bit cells and a M-th bit cell of the bit cells are arranged diagonally in different cell...