ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,165, issued on June 17, was assigned to FIDELIX Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).
"Aging monitoring circuit of semiconductor memory device" was invented by Jae Jin Lee (Gwangju-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aging monitoring circuit of a semiconductor memory device includes a threshold voltage sensing part including an aging monitoring transistor, enabled in response to activation of an aging monitoring signal, and generating a sensing threshold signal, a level of the sensing threshold signal depending on a threshold voltage of the aging monitoring transistor, a reference threshold storage part receiving the sen...