ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,476, issued on July 1, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Apparatus and method to improve sensing noise margin in a non-linear polar material based bit-cell" was invented by Ahmad Tavakoli (San Francisco), Rajeev Kumar Dokania (Beaverton, Ore.), Mustansir Yunus Mukadam (Seattle), Amrita Mathuriya (Portland, Ore.), Debo Olaosebikan (San Francisco), Tanay Gosavi (Portland, Ore.), Noriyuki Sato (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Sasikanth Manipatruni (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a memory sensing scheme that improves noise margin. In at least one embodiment, one or more circuitries are describ...