ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,579, issued on March 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Layouts for sense amplifiers and related apparatuses and systems" was invented by Yuko Watanabe (Tokyo) and Takefumi Shirako (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrically conductive line side-by-side running distance equalization and related apparatuses and systems. An apparatus includes a first sense amplifier, a second sense amplifier, a first pair of lines, and a second pair of lines. The first sense amplifier includes a first pull-up sense amplifier and a first pull-down sense amplifier. The first pair of lines electrically connects a first pull-...