G11C 7/14
Dummy cell management
Official title: Dummy cell management; Sense reference voltage generators
G11C7/14 (Dummy cell management) appears on 1,587 US grants and 1,387 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11C- Granted patents
- 1,587
- Published applications
- 1,387
- Assignees
- 339
- Inventors
- 2,314
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 29 | 33 |
| 2004 | 51 | 56 |
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| 2006 | 34 | 51 |
| 2007 | 40 | 65 |
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| 2020 | 85 | 65 |
| 2021 | 71 | 63 |
| 2022 | 67 | 90 |
| 2023 | 66 | 85 |
| 2024 | 81 | 70 |
| 2025 | 54 | 45 |
| 2026 | 30 | 31 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Sensing amplifier, method and controller for sensing memory cell25 Aug 2026US 12,718,849 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Memory device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290414 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Memory device3 Sep 2026US 2026/0260679 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Memory array27 Aug 2026US 2026/0253620 A1Xiamen Industrial Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
- Method of detecting sense margin of memory read operation and related sense margin detecting circuit6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229259 A1United Microelectronics Corp.
- Single ended memory sensing architecture6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229262 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for a sense amplifier circuit that samples and holds a reference voltage462US 6,819,612 B1Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. · 2004
- Dynamic semiconductor memory device of a twisted bit line system having improved reliability of readout442US 4,977,542 AMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 1990
- Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device programming second dynamic reference cell according to threshold value of first dynamic reference cell281US 6,639,849 B2Fujitsu Limited · 2003
- 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