US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 4 for "Apparatuses and methods for reducing standby current in memory array access circuits" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,451, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatuses and methods for reducing standby current in memory array access circuits" was invented by Takamasa Suzuki (Hachioji, Japan), Nobuo Yamamoto (Nerima-ku, Japan) and Izumi Nakai (Kawagoe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for reducing standby current in memory array access circuits are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a activation voltage supply line and a sense amplifier coupled to the activation voltage supply line. The sense amplifier is configured to be activated by an activation voltage provided on the activa...