ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,510, issued on May 27, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
"Memory array" was invented by Hui-Lin Wang (Taipei, Taiwan), Ju-Chun Fan (Tainan, Taiwan), Ching-Hua Hsu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chun-Hao Wang (Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Yu Lin (Taichung, Taiwan), Dong-Ming Wu (Taichung, Taiwan) and Po-Kai Hsu (Tainan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory array includes at least one strap region, at least two sub-arrays, a plurality of staggered, dummy magnetic storage elements, and a plurality of bit line structures. The strap region includes a plurality of source line straps and a plurality of word line strap...