G11C 16/06
Auxiliary circuits
Official title: Auxiliary circuits, e.g. for writing into memory
G11C16/06 (Auxiliary circuits) appears on 29,810 US grants and 28,232 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11C- Granted patents
- 29,810
- Published applications
- 28,232
- Assignees
- 1,687
- Inventors
- 18,512
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 18 | 0 |
| 1979 | 7 | 0 |
| 1980 | 8 | 0 |
| 1981 | 15 | 0 |
| 1982 | 16 | 0 |
| 1983 | 23 | 0 |
| 1984 | 32 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 434 | 0 |
| 2000 | 522 | 0 |
| 2001 | 507 | 161 |
| 2002 | 541 | 520 |
| 2003 | 551 | 581 |
| 2004 | 548 | 617 |
| 2005 | 520 | 753 |
| 2006 | 637 | 874 |
| 2007 | 752 | 996 |
| 2008 | 820 | 1178 |
| 2009 | 885 | 1075 |
| 2010 | 934 | 988 |
| 2011 | 1018 | 1042 |
| 2012 | 976 | 1068 |
| 2013 | 1088 | 1060 |
| 2014 | 1269 | 1302 |
| 2015 | 1376 | 1172 |
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| 2017 | 1286 | 1099 |
| 2018 | 1091 | 1038 |
| 2019 | 1282 | 1416 |
| 2020 | 1529 | 1538 |
| 2021 | 1476 | 1537 |
| 2022 | 1425 | 1650 |
| 2023 | 1403 | 1567 |
| 2024 | 1413 | 1469 |
| 2025 | 1232 | 1222 |
| 2026 | 759 | 1057 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G11C 16/10Programming or data input circuits16,290
- G11C 16/34Determination of programming status12,272
- G11C 16/26Sensing or reading circuits11,014
- G11C 16/08Address circuits6,660
- G11C 16/30Power supply circuits4,263
- G11C 16/32Timing circuits3,214
- G11C 16/24Bit-line control circuits3,204
- G11C 16/22Safety or protection circuits preventing unauthorised or accidental access to memory cells1,324
Recent patents
- Managing read timing in semiconductor devices6 Oct 2026US 12,754,674 B2Macronix International Co., Ltd.
- Power supply circuit, semiconductor device and electronic device6 Oct 2026US 12,755,762 B2SK hynix Inc.
- Low-power programmable erasable nonvolatile memory6 Oct 2026US 12,755,787 B2Yield Microelectronics Corp.
- Address fault detection in a memory system6 Oct 2026US 12,755,788 B2Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.
- Control gate signal for data retention in nonvolatile memory6 Oct 2026US 12,755,789 B2SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Nonvolatile memory device supporting high-efficiency i/o interface8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310383 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- In-memory computing of interactions between variables of high-order functions8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310744 A1Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Memory apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311762 A1Winbond Electronics Corp.
- Memory structure, memory device and operating method thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311763 A1Macronix International Co., Ltd.
- Lateral charge migration handling on edge wordlines of a memory device in a memory sub-system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311764 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Two bit non-volatile electrically erasable and programmable semiconductor memory cell utilizing asymmetrical charge trapping1,211US 6,011,725 ASaifun Semiconductors Ltd. · 2000
- Multi-state EEprom read and write circuits and techniques1,175US 5,172,338 ASunDisk Corporation · 1992
- Multi-state memory1,008US 6,222,762 B1SanDisk Corporation · 2001
- High density non-volatile flash memory without adverse effects of electric field coupling between adjacent floating gates827US 5,867,429 ASanDisk Corporation · 1999
- Highly compact EPROM and flash EEPROM devices819US 5,095,344 A1992