US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 16 for "Counter-based sense amplifier method for memory cells" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,962, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Counter-based sense amplifier method for memory cells" was invented by Riccardo Muzzetto (Arcore, Italy), Ferdinando Bedeschi (Biassono, Italy) and Umberto Di Vincenzo (Capriate San Gervasio, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for a counter-based sense amplifier method for memory cells are described. The described techniques provide for a memory system to store, in a counter associated with an array of memory cells, a value indicating a quantity of memory cells in the array having a predetermined logic value. The memory sys...