US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Feb. 24 for "Shared metal wire capacitance for negative bit-line" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,200, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Shared metal wire capacitance for negative bit-line" was invented by Cagri Erbagci (Pittsburgh), Burak Erbagci (Pittsburgh), Lalit Gupta (Fremont, Calif.) and Jesse San-Jey Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Negative bit line voltage assist mechanisms for multi-bank machine memories utilizing multiple local IO drivers include a shared boost capacitor configured to generate a negative bit line voltage assist for write operations by local IO drivers, where the boost capacitor is configured to selectively couple to one of the local IO driv...