US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on Sept. 23 for "Storage circuit provided with variable resistance type elements" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,273, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Storage circuit provided with variable resistance type elements" was invented by Hiroki Koike (Sendai, Japan) and Tetsuo Endoh (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage circuit includes a memory cell array of memory cells each including a variable resistance type element, a resistance-voltage conversion circuit RTj to convert a resistance value of a memory cell MCij to be read to a data voltage, a reference circuit and RTR to generate a reference voltage, a sense amplifier to determine read data by receiving the data voltage and the reference ...