US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on Oct. 27 for "Row decoder circuit and corresponding method of operation" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,372, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Row decoder circuit and corresponding method of operation" was invented by Fabio Enrico Carlo Disegni (Spino d'adda, Italy), Cesare Torti (Pavia, Italy), Davide Manfre (Pandino, Italy), Massimo Caruso (Messina, Italy) and Maurizio Francesco Perroni (Messina, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A row decoder circuit includes an input node receiving a row selection signal and an output node coupled to a memory device word line. A pull-down circuit couples the word line to ground in response to the row selection signal being asserted. A pull-up ...