G11C 11/4085
Word line control circuits
Official title: {Word line control circuits, e.g. word line drivers, - boosters, - pull-up, - pull-down, - precharge}
G11C11/4085 (Word line control circuits) appears on 1,872 US grants and 1,877 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11C- Granted patents
- 1,872
- Published applications
- 1,877
- Assignees
- 243
- Inventors
- 2,512
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Semiconductor device having row decoder circuit6 Oct 2026US 12,755,774 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Semiconductor device6 Oct 2026US 12,757,369 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Apparatuses and methods for access based targeted refresh operations29 Sep 2026US 12,749,523 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Memory devices including row decoder circuits having sub-word line driver circuit with nor logic circuit29 Sep 2026US 12,749,524 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Memory that determines last programmed word line, storage device and operating method of the memory8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311740 A1SK hynix Inc.
- Semiconductor memory devices with wordline groups8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311741 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Enhanced valley tracking with trim setting updates in a memory device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311749 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Microelectronic devices and related memory devices8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313875 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Apparatuses systems and methods for hot electron induced punch-through degradation mitigation1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301790 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Planar capacitor memory cell and its applications311US 7,209,384 B12007
- Techniques for reducing a voltage swing229US 7,933,140 B2Micron Technology, Inc. · 2011
- Semiconductor memory device138US 4,262,340 AFujitsu Limited · 1981
- Virtual channel synchronous dynamic random access memory138US 6,330,205 B2NEC Corporation · 2001
- High voltage boosted word line supply charge pump and regulator for DRAM129US 6,236,581 B1Mosaid Technologies Incorporated · 2001