US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 3 for "2-step sensing sense amplifier and memory device including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,173, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"2-step sensing sense amplifier and memory device including the same" was invented by Taeyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junmyung Woo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taewon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yanggyoon Loh (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An LSA circuit includes a first sensing transistor and a second sensing transistor connected in series between a local I/O line and a complementary local I/O line, a pre-sensing driver configured to drive an LSA sensing voltage to a connection node between the first sensing tran...