ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,298, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Control circuit, memory system and control method" was invented by Win-San Khwa (Taipei, Taiwan), Jen-Chieh Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Meng-Fan Chang (Taichung, Taiwan), Tung-Ying Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jin Cai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit, a memory system and a control method are provided. The control circuit is configured to control a plurality of memory cells of a memory array. The control circuit comprises a program controller. The program is configured to program a first electrical charact...