US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 17 for "Memory with one-transistor-based bit line tracking circuit" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,622, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Memory with one-transistor-based bit line tracking circuit" was invented by Channappa Desai (Haveri, India), Derek Yang (Poway, Calif.) and Sunil Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A replica column for bit line tracking of a bitcell array is disclosed that includes just one replica access transistor for each row in the bitcell array. If there are N rows, there are thus N replica access transistors in the replica column, where N is a plural positive integer. The replica column includes no other transistors besides the replica access transistors."...