ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,712, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Sensing scheme for a memory with shared sense components" was invented by Yuan He (Boise, Idaho), Tae H. Kim (Boise, Idaho) and Scott James Derner (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for sensing a memory with shared sense components are described. A device may activate a word line and a plate line each coupled with a set of memory cells, where each memory cell of the set of memory cells is coupled with a respective digit line of a set of digit lines. The device may activate a set of switching components to couple eac...