US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on March 18 for "Sub-word line driver placement for memory device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,919, issued on March 18, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Sub-word line driver placement for memory device" was invented by Yi-Tzu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Wei Wu (Caotun Town, Taiwan), Hau-Tai Shieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hung-Jen Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are related to a memory system including unit storage circuits. In one aspect, each of the unit storage circuits abuts an adjacent one of the unit storage circuits. In one aspect, each of the unit storage circuits includes a first group of memory cells, a second group of memory cells, a...