US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 26 for "Capacitance balancing in semiconductor devices" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,188, issued on May 26, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Capacitance balancing in semiconductor devices" was invented by Eric Carman (Boise, Idaho) and Christopher Morzano (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for capacitance balancing in semiconductor devices. An apparatus comprising a sense amplifier having first and second nodes and configured to amplify a voltage difference between the first and second nodes. A first global sense line is coupled to the first node and a plurality of first locals sense lines are coupled in parallel to the first global sense li...