ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,664, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor memory apparatus and an operating method of the semiconductor memory apparatus" was invented by Dong Kyu Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Ho Seok Em (Icheon-si, South Korea), Hyung Sik Won (Icheon-si, South Korea), Jeong Jun Lee (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Jun Ho Cheon (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor memory apparatus is configured to perform a mismatch compensation operation of a bitline sense amplifier and enable a wordline electrically coupled with a bitline, after electrically isolating an input node ...