ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,784, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Memory circuit" was invented by Yang-Ling Wu (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory circuit, including multiple storage cells arranged in an array with multiple columns and rows, multiple word lines extending in row direction and connecting with the gates of storage cells, multiple bit lines extending in column direction and connecting respectively with the storage cells, wherein the storage cells in each row correspond to m word lines, m is an integer equal or greater than 2, and the m word lines are sequentially and alterna...