ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,333, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Operation method of sense amplifier with precharge, offset cancellation, charge sharing, pre- sensing, and restore operation steps" was invented by Dongil Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sense amplifier which includes a sense amplifier circuit that includes a first NMOS transistor and a second NMOS transistor, the first NMOS transistor being connected to a first bit line and the second NMOS transistor being connected to a second bit line complementary to the first bit line, a first isolation/offset cancellation cir...