ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,867, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-Si, South Korea).

"Memory devices having sense amplifiers therein that support offset cancellation having improved sense amplifier characteristics and methods of operating same" was invented by Seungki Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinsol Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaeseong Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsoo Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Eunki Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a memory device includes precharging a pair of true and complementary bit lines (BL/BLB) to an equivalent voltage concurrently with p...