ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,544, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Sense amplifier circuitry and threshold voltage compensation" was invented by Wenlun Zhang (Chofu, Japan), Hiroki Fujisawa (Sagamihara, Japan), Shinichi Miyatake (Sagamihara, Japan) and Yuan He (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sense amplifiers for memory devices may include threshold voltage compensation circuitry configured to compensate a threshold voltage offset of a portion of the sense amplifier. Additionally, the sense amplifiers also perform pre-sensing of the portion of the sense amplifier. Moreover, the sense amplifier is configured t...