ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,652, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatus for small swing data transfer" was invented by Harutaka Makabe (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide an apparatus comprising a small swing driver and a small swing repeater on data transfer wiring of a memory device. The small swing driver includes 1st pair of 1st-type p/n-MOS transistors and 2nd pair of 2nd-type p/n-MOS transistors. The small swing repeater includes 3rd pair of 1st-type p/n-MOS transistors and 4th pair of 2nd-type p/n-MOS transistors. In the small swing driver, positive power su...