US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Aug. 25 for "Sensing amplifier, method and controller for sensing memory cell" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,849, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Sensing amplifier, method and controller for sensing memory cell" was invented by Hiroki Noguchi (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ku-Feng Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yih Wang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing amplifier, coupled to at least one memory cell, includes an output terminal and a reference terminal, a multiplexer circuit, and a plurality of reference cells having equal value. An output terminal of the multiplexer circuit is coupled to the reference terminal of the sensing amplifier. Each of the refere...