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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:
Feb. 24, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Western Digital (Fremont), Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/02 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/02 ;
Abstract
A reference cell circuit for a magnetic tunnel junction MRAM includes two magnetic tunnel junctions where one is always set to a low resistance state and the other is always set to a high resistance state. The two magnetic tunnel junctions are connected between two segments of a bit line. The reference cell also includes a digit line that crosses both of the bit line segments.