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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Boaz Eitan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
WaferScale Integration, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
36518516 ; 365 51 ; 365 52 ; 365 63 ; 36518505 ; 36523004 ; 257316 ;
Abstract
Each read line in a memory array containing a plurality of alternating bit lines and read lines with columns of memory cells therebetween, is broken into a plurality of electrically isolatable segments. As a result, the capacitance associated with each read line is significantly reduced and the speed of reading information from or writing information into a memory cell is significantly increased while at the same time not decreasing the density of the array.