US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 28 for "Systems, apparatuses, and methods of using local input/output (LIO) lines for precharging and equalizing digit lines of sense amplifiers" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,512, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Systems, apparatuses, and methods of using local input/output (LIO) lines for precharging and equalizing digit lines of sense amplifiers" was invented by John Schreck (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Local input/output (LIO) lines may be used for precharging and equalizing the digit lines associated with a sense amplifier. The precharge device and equalization device of the associated sense amplifier may be omitted in some examples. In some examples, an equalization device may short the lines of a LIO line pair together. The LIO line pair may ...