ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,634, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Multilevel plate line decoding" was invented by Makoto Kitagawa (Folsom, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variety of applications can include a memory device having memory cells that include capacitors as storage units with each capacitor having a plate coupled to a plate line. The memory device can include a plate line driver coupled to specific plate select lines of a set of multiple plate select lines. A plate line driver scheme can include transistors to provide a plate line voltage to a specific plate line and transistors to provide a system r...