ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,934, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory device and method for operating memory device" was invented by Haruki Mori (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Je Min Hung (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Hidehiro Fujiwara (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device is provided. The memory device includes a compute-in-memory (CIM) array, capacitor circuit pairs, a first switch circuit and an analog-to-digital converter. The CIM array includes bit cells arranged in columns, in which the CIM array generates, in response to an input vector and a stored vector in the bit cells, ...