ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,480, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Peripheral circuits for low voltage programmable non-volatile memory" was invented by Krishnanunni B (Bangalore, India) and Devraj Rajagopal (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes core circuits configured to operate at a core bias potential, input/output (I/O) circuits configured to operate at an I/O bias potential higher than the core bias potential, and a non-volatile memory having a peripheral circuit configured to operate at a memory program bias potential that is higher than the I/O bias potential. The peripheral c...