US Patent Issued to WINBOND ELECTRONICS on Jan. 28 for "Determination circuit and memory device and peripheral circuit thereof" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,576, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to WINBOND ELECTRONICS CORP. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Determination circuit and memory device and peripheral circuit thereof" was invented by Liang-Hsiang Chiu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peripheral circuit of a memory device includes a compensation circuit, a determination circuit, and a plurality of page buffers. The compensation circuit defines a leakage current. The determination circuit is coupled to the compensation circuit, and is operated according to the leakage current. The determination circuit includes a current source, a first current mirror, a second current ...