ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,962, issued on July 14, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Sense amplifier control" was invented by Chung-Chieh Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Cheng-Hsiung Kuo (Jhubei City, Taiwan) and Yu-Der Chih (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sense amplifier control system includes a precharge control switch configured to receive a precharge signal. A reference cell is configured to receive a reference word line signal. In a precharge phase, the control switch is controlled in response to the precharge signal to precharge the reference input node to a predetermined precharge level...