US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM Incorproated on Nov. 3 for "Bit line charge sharing for SRAM dynamic power savings" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,823, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Incorproated (San Diego).

"Bit line charge sharing for SRAM dynamic power savings" was invented by Hochul Lee (Los Angeles), Anil Chowdary Kota (San Diego) and Chulmin Jung (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bit line charge sharing precharge circuit is provided that precharges a bit line pair during a charge sharing period in which the bit line pair is isolated from a memory power supply voltage. Prior to the charge sharing period, one of the bit lines in the bit line pair was charged to the memory power supply voltage whereas a remaining one was either fully or partially discha...