ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,537, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Systems and methods for reading bit state in arrays of memory cells" was invented by Yen-Cheng Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Win-San Khwa (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Meng-Fan Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory circuits that read the bit state of memory cells are disclosed. In some embodiments, a memory circuit, includes a memory cell configured to store a bit. A reference line is configured to receive a reference signal and a data line is configured to receive a data signal. The data line is configured to be selec...