ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,861, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ferroelectric Memory GmbH (Dresden, Germany).

"Devices, methods, and systems for calibrating a sensing capacitor used in a sensing circuit for reading memory cells" was invented by Alessandro Palludo (Milan) and Stefano Sivero (Comun Nuovo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are devices, methods, and systems for calibrating a sensing capacitance value used by a sensing circuit when reading memory cells of a memory. The calibration circuit includes a calibration cell associated with a predefined programming state of the calibration cell. The calibration circuit also includes a r...