G11C 7/06
Sense amplifiers
Official title: Sense amplifiers; Associated circuits {, e.g. timing or triggering circuits}
G11C7/06 (Sense amplifiers) appears on 6,263 US grants and 4,930 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11C- Granted patents
- 6,263
- Published applications
- 4,930
- Assignees
- 664
- Inventors
- 6,026
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 5 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 7 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 3 | 0 |
| 1984 | 7 | 0 |
| 1985 | 14 | 0 |
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| 1987 | 23 | 0 |
| 1988 | 31 | 0 |
| 1989 | 29 | 0 |
| 1990 | 33 | 0 |
| 1991 | 50 | 0 |
| 1992 | 31 | 0 |
| 1993 | 47 | 0 |
| 1994 | 88 | 0 |
| 1995 | 54 | 0 |
| 1996 | 65 | 0 |
| 1997 | 120 | 0 |
| 1998 | 146 | 0 |
| 1999 | 179 | 0 |
| 2000 | 193 | 0 |
| 2001 | 185 | 62 |
| 2002 | 201 | 159 |
| 2003 | 173 | 164 |
| 2004 | 176 | 206 |
| 2005 | 171 | 213 |
| 2006 | 198 | 167 |
| 2007 | 153 | 198 |
| 2008 | 162 | 206 |
| 2009 | 185 | 170 |
| 2010 | 171 | 147 |
| 2011 | 150 | 139 |
| 2012 | 146 | 153 |
| 2013 | 141 | 155 |
| 2014 | 172 | 209 |
| 2015 | 207 | 186 |
| 2016 | 235 | 187 |
| 2017 | 281 | 251 |
| 2018 | 239 | 223 |
| 2019 | 273 | 274 |
| 2020 | 312 | 256 |
| 2021 | 259 | 226 |
| 2022 | 192 | 247 |
| 2023 | 215 | 286 |
| 2024 | 233 | 196 |
| 2025 | 194 | 163 |
| 2026 | 91 | 87 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Sense amplifiers and operation methods thereof, and memory devices including the same6 Oct 2026US 12,755,764 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Calibration devices and operating methods thereof6 Oct 2026US 12,755,766 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Methods and apparatus including sampler circuitry for performing offest calibration6 Oct 2026US 12,755,769 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- System and method applied with computing-in-memory6 Oct 2026US 12,755,783 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Device and method for reading data in memory29 Sep 2026US 12,749,514 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Memory device, method for sensing memory cell, and controller of memory device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311731 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Bit line sense amplifier and a memory apparatus using the same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311732 A1SK hynix Inc.
- Integrated circuit and method of operating same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311793 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Memory device and operating method of the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301783 A1SK hynix Inc.
- Sense amplifying circuit and memory device including the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301784 A1SK hynix Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sense amplifier circuit466US 6,147,514 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 2000
- Apparatus and method for a sense amplifier circuit that samples and holds a reference voltage462US 6,819,612 B1Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. · 2004
- Dynamic memory with isolated digit lines445US 5,506,811 AMicron Technology, Inc. · 1996
- Sense amplifier with an integral logic function444US 5,034,636 AMotorola, Inc. · 1991
- DRAM sense amplifier having pre-charged transistor body nodes444US 6,466,499 B1Micron Technology, Inc. · 2002