ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,841, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Current sensing circuit using proportional current mirrors" was invented by Hung-Hsueh Lin (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current sensing circuit including a differential sensing amplifier and a pre-charging circuit is provided. The differential sensing amplifier includes a first input end, a second input end and a output end. The first input end is coupled to a selected cell via a first data line. The second input end is coupled to a reference cell via a second data line. The output end outputs a sensing data of the selected cell...