US Patent Issued to Atomera on April 1 for "DRAM sense amplifier architecture with reduced power consumption and related methods" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,996, issued on April 1, was assigned to Atomera Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"DRAM sense amplifier architecture with reduced power consumption and related methods" was invented by Richard Stephen Roy (Lago Vista, Texas) and Robert J. Mears (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) device may include an array of DRAM cells, with each DRAM cell configured to store a high logic voltage and a low logic voltage. The DRAM device may further include a precharge circuit configured to selectively provide a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage to a first line and a second line, respec...