G11C 11/4099
Dummy cell treatment
Official title: Dummy cell treatment; Reference voltage generators
G11C11/4099 (Dummy cell treatment) appears on 570 US grants and 490 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11C- Granted patents
- 570
- Published applications
- 490
- Assignees
- 127
- Inventors
- 814
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 7 | 14 |
| 2003 | 14 | 15 |
| 2004 | 19 | 10 |
| 2005 | 12 | 10 |
| 2006 | 7 | 10 |
| 2007 | 7 | 21 |
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| 2010 | 12 | 14 |
| 2011 | 18 | 5 |
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| 2018 | 18 | 16 |
| 2019 | 34 | 29 |
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| 2021 | 34 | 24 |
| 2022 | 21 | 33 |
| 2023 | 30 | 46 |
| 2024 | 32 | 29 |
| 2025 | 27 | 33 |
| 2026 | 23 | 17 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Memory device and memory system18 Aug 2026US 12,712,015 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- High gain detector techniques for low bandwidth low noise phase-locked loops18 Aug 2026US 12,712,551 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Sensing within an embedded dynamic random access memories (DRAMs) having reference cells11 Aug 2026US 12,704,962 B2NXP USA, Inc.
- Memory and operation method thereof, and memory system11 Aug 2026US 12,706,134 B2Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Patch to patch capacitor region in 3d-dram24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290443 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Memory device and operating method thereof10 Sep 2026US 2026/0268961 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Memory refresh6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229274 A1
- Concurrent scan operation on multiple blocks in a memory device6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229279 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Memory device23 Jul 2026US 2026/0212915 A1STMicroelectronics International N. V.
Most cited
By later US patents
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- Sense amplifier circuitry and architecture to write data into and/or read from memory cells263US 7,486,563 B2Innovative Silicon ISi SA · 2009
- Method and circuitry to generate a reference current for reading a memory cell, and device implementing same260US 7,499,358 B2Innovative Silicon ISi SA · 2009
- Method of maintaining the state of semiconductor memory having electrically floating body transistor208US 8,208,302 B2Zeno Semiconductor, Inc. · 2012