US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Sept. 2 for "Switches to reduce routing rails of memory system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,702, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Switches to reduce routing rails of memory system" was invented by Meng-Sheng Chang (Chu-bei, Taiwan), Chia-En Huang (Xinfeng Township, Taiwan), Yi-Ching Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yih Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are related to a memory array including a set of memory cells and a set of switches to configure the set of memory cells. In one aspect, each switch is connected between a corresponding local line and a corresponding subset of memory cells. The local clines may be connected to a glo...