ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,811, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Sense amplifier circuit having bitline sense amplifers and equalizing circuit and semiconductor memory device including the same" was invented by Kyoungmin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donggeon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Myeongsik Ryu (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sujin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Inseok Baek (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bokyeon Won (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jongmoon Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sense amplifier circuit including bitline sense amplifiers each of which includes an amplifying circuit...