US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on March 24 for "Sense amplifier circuit, corresponding memory device and method of operation" (Italian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,639, issued on March 24, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Sense amplifier circuit, corresponding memory device and method of operation" was invented by Antonino Conte (Tremestrieri Etneo, Italy) and Francesco La Rosa (Rousset, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "First, second input terminals of a sense amplifier are coupled to first, second memory sensing nodes. A first input transistor has a channel arranged between a first comparator input and a first comparator output, and a control terminal at a bias node. A second input transistor has a channel arranged between a second comparator input and a s...