ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,672, issued on July 8, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory sensing with global non-regular counter and/or global multiple reference voltages" was invented by Chun-Hsiung Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit is provided. The circuit can include sensing circuits configured to sense differences between first and second currents on selected bit lines of an array of memory cells and produce outputs for the bit lines as a function of the difference, and a global programmable non-regular counter configured to continuously provide a count value to each of the sensing circuits in...