Appeal No. 95-3388
Application 08/242,993
Before KRASS, FLEMING and CARMICHAEL, Administrative Patent
Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejec-
tion of claims 1 through 42, all of the claims present in the
application.
The invention relates to memory cell circuitry. In
particular, a transmission gate is coupled to a storage device
to function as a select gate for the storage device.
The independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A memory cell comprising:
a voltage terminal;
means for storing a binary value coupled to the
voltage terminal and formed as a single device selected from a
group consisting of: a floating gate device, a ferroelectric
storage device, and a ferromagnetic storage device;
a select gate having a first terminal coupled to
only one of the means for storing and a second terminal,
wherein the select gate is further characterized as being a
transmission gate which comprises a plurality of transistors
coupled in parallel; and
2
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