ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,787, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Threshold compensated detector for memory sense" was invented by Ferdinando Bedeschi (Biassono, Italy), Umberto Di Vincenzo (Capriate San Gervasio, Italy) and Michele Maria Venturini (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection circuit may be configured to receive an input signal indicative of a data state and to detect the data state using charge sharing between two capacitors to achieve detection with threshold compensation. The detection circuit may include semi-latch circuitry and boosting circuitry to expedite the detection, thereby achieving high...