G11C 17/126
Virtual ground arrays
Official title: {Virtual ground arrays}
G11C17/126 (Virtual ground arrays) appears on 168 US grants and 46 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11C- Granted patents
- 168
- Published applications
- 46
- Assignees
- 58
- Inventors
- 200
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1980 | 5 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 20 | 0 |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 8 | 0 |
| 2001 | 7 | 2 |
| 2002 | 8 | 8 |
| 2003 | 4 | 3 |
| 2004 | 6 | 5 |
| 2005 | 6 | 3 |
| 2006 | 2 | 4 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 3 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 |
| 2010 | 3 | 3 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 |
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| 2020 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2022 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Encoded read-only memory and decoder19 May 2026US 12,633,363 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Encoded read-only memory and decoder19 May 2026US 12,633,364 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Masking techniques for memory applications23 Sep 2025US 12,424,292 B2Arm Limited
- Small-area high-efficiency read-only memory (ROM) array and method for operating the same11 Mar 2025US 12,250,810 B2Yield Microelectronics Corp.
- Low-leakage drain-programmed ROM21 Mar 2023US 11,610,633 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Memory devices and methods of manufacturing thereof13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237447 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Encoded read-only memory and decoder18 Sep 2025US 2025/0292847 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Encoded read-only memory and decoder18 Sep 2025US 2025/0292848 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Multi-write read-only memory array and read-only memory thereof19 Jun 2025US 2025/0203858 A1Yield Microelectronics Corp.
- Masking Techniques for Memory Applications12 Sep 2024US 2024/0304265 A1Arm Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fixed resistance high density parallel ROM device202US 5,684,733 AHoltek Microelectronics, Inc. · 1997
- Flat-cell read-only-memory integrated circuit162US 5,117,389 AMacronix International Co., Ltd. · 1992
- Virtual ground MOS EPROM or ROM matrix144US 4,281,397 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1981
- VLSI memory with increased memory access speed, increased memory cell density and decreased parasitic capacitance91US 5,241,497 ACreative Integrated Systems, Inc. · 1993
- Semiconductor read only memory82US 5,268,861 ASharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 1993