G11C 7/12
Bit line control circuits
Official title: Bit line control circuits, e.g. drivers, boosters, pull-up circuits, pull-down circuits, precharging circuits, equalising circuits, for bit lines
G11C7/12 (Bit line control circuits) appears on 4,356 US grants and 3,813 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11C- Granted patents
- 4,356
- Published applications
- 3,813
- Assignees
- 496
- Inventors
- 4,821
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
| 1984 | 5 | 0 |
| 1985 | 5 | 0 |
| 1986 | 11 | 0 |
| 1987 | 15 | 0 |
| 1988 | 12 | 0 |
| 1989 | 19 | 0 |
| 1990 | 17 | 0 |
| 1991 | 24 | 0 |
| 1992 | 17 | 0 |
| 1993 | 17 | 0 |
| 1994 | 34 | 0 |
| 1995 | 26 | 0 |
| 1996 | 30 | 0 |
| 1997 | 43 | 0 |
| 1998 | 63 | 0 |
| 1999 | 80 | 0 |
| 2000 | 95 | 0 |
| 2001 | 77 | 18 |
| 2002 | 74 | 55 |
| 2003 | 73 | 90 |
| 2004 | 87 | 109 |
| 2005 | 92 | 113 |
| 2006 | 119 | 126 |
| 2007 | 131 | 171 |
| 2008 | 121 | 158 |
| 2009 | 138 | 121 |
| 2010 | 125 | 138 |
| 2011 | 129 | 106 |
| 2012 | 115 | 130 |
| 2013 | 129 | 143 |
| 2014 | 178 | 197 |
| 2015 | 210 | 195 |
| 2016 | 214 | 172 |
| 2017 | 225 | 202 |
| 2018 | 204 | 176 |
| 2019 | 200 | 205 |
| 2020 | 239 | 198 |
| 2021 | 202 | 181 |
| 2022 | 158 | 214 |
| 2023 | 162 | 209 |
| 2024 | 189 | 185 |
| 2025 | 158 | 140 |
| 2026 | 83 | 61 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for high performance read with row-to-row threshold tracking in NVM6 Oct 2026US 12,754,676 B2Kioxia Corporation
- Sense amplifiers and operation methods thereof, and memory devices including the same6 Oct 2026US 12,755,764 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- 3D NOR flash based in-memory computing6 Oct 2026US 12,755,765 B2Macronix International Co., Ltd.
- Semiconductor device6 Oct 2026US 12,757,369 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Flexible SRAM pre-charge systems and methods for minimizing leakage and reducing power consumption29 Sep 2026US 12,749,517 B2Microsft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Computation in memory for anneal processing using bitwise capacitive coupling8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311023 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Bit line sense amplifier and a memory apparatus using the same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311732 A1SK hynix Inc.
- Memory device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311733 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Reducing capacitive loading of memory system based on switches8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311734 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Floating data line circuit and method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311771 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Time-dependent compensation currents in non-volatile memory read operations426US 7,535,769 B2SanDisk Corporation · 2009
- Semiconductor memory device having reduced data access time and improve speed424US 6,226,215 B1Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd. · 2001
- Apparatuses and methods for performing compare operations using sensing circuitry422US 8,964,496 B2Micron Technology, Inc. · 2015
- Semiconductor memory device421US 8,208,328 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · 2012
- Integrated circuit devices including input/output line pairs and precharge circuits and related memory devices420US 6,985,394 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. · 2006