US Patent Issued to MARVELL ASIA on July 15 for "Method and apparatus for faster bitcell operation" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,992, issued on July 15, was assigned to MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for faster bitcell operation" was invented by Eric D. Hunt-Schroeder (Essex Junction, Vt.), Sundar Sankarasubramanian (Tamil Nadu, India) and Dale Edward Pontius (Colchester, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes circuitry configured for faster bitcell operation. That circuitry includes a plurality of bitcells readable as one of a '0' value and a '1' value, and voltage generation circuitry configured to apply an activation voltage to activate selected bitcells in the plurality of bitcells for reading. The volta...