US Patent Issued to RAMBUS on Sept. 8 for "Sense amplifier for active standby operation" (Vermont Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,632, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RAMBUS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sense amplifier for active standby operation" was invented by Thomas Vogelsang (Jericho, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sense amplifier for a memory device includes a primary latch and a holding latch that are independently controllable. The primary latch comprises a first set of transistors and the holding latch includes a second set of transistors having higher threshold voltages than the first set of transistors. In conjunction with a memory access operation, the primary latch and the holding latch sense and amplify a differential voltage of a pair of b...