ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,316, issued on April 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Sense amplifiers as static random access memory cache" was invented by Peter L. Brown (Eagle, Idaho), Glen E. Hush (Boise, Idaho), Troy A. Manning (Meridian, Idaho), Timothy P. Finkbeiner (Boise, Idaho) and Troy D. Larsen (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices related to sense amplifiers of a memory device serving as a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cache. For example, a memory array can be coupled to sense amplifiers. In a first mode, the sense amplifiers can be electrically disconnect from digit lines of the ...