US Patent Issued to Socionext on Feb. 10 for "Semiconductor storage device comprising a replica bit line circuit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,603, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Socionext Inc. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Semiconductor storage device comprising a replica bit line circuit" was invented by Shinichi Moriwaki (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor storage device includes a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells connected to bit line pairs. At the time of data read from a memory cell, a replica bit line signal is output to a replica bit line in response to a replica word line signal, and a sense amplifier startup signal changes in response to the replica bit line signal whereby a sense amplifier is driven. At the time of data w...