US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 9 for "Semiconductor device including distributed write driving arrangement" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,621, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device including distributed write driving arrangement" was invented by Hidehiro Fujiwara (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hung-Jen Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Li-Wen Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jonathan Tsung-Yung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yen-Huei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory device includes: a local write bit (LWB) line; a local write bit_bar (LWB_bar) line; a global write bit (GWB) line; a global write bit_bar (GWBL_bar) line; a column of segments, each segment including bit cells; ...