US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on Sept. 1 for "Leakage compensation circuit for content addressable memory (CAM) cell" (Maryland, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,654, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Leakage compensation circuit for content addressable memory (CAM) cell" was invented by Bouchaib Cherif (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Philippe Pouliquen (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A leakage compensation content addressable memory (CAM) circuit includes at least one CAM cell configured to store a bit value, and at least one compensation CAM cell configured to store the bit value of the CAM cell and to cancel leakage current of the CAM cell. The leakage compensation CAM circuit further includes at least one main bit line driver co...