ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,451, issued on April 7, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY (Japan).

"Read circuit and memory system" was invented by Toru Tanzawa (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit that reads data from a memory array including a bit line electrically connecting memory cells, includes an amplification unit that includes a read line connected to the bit line, charges the bit line via the read line during a read operation of the data, and then amplifies an electric signal of the bit line at a sense node on the read line, and an inverter that determines data stored in a memory cell selecte...