ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,474, issued on March 3, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Voltage monitor of memory device" was invented by Chih-Jen Chen (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Chang-Ting Wu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage monitor is provided. The voltage monitor includes a voltage divider, a bridge switch and an off-chip driver (OCD). The voltage divider receives an internal voltage in the memory device, and divides the internal voltage to generate a sensing voltage on a sensing node. The bridge switch is coupled between the sensing node and a connecting pad. The OCD includes a control switch,...