US Patent Issued to Kioxia on May 26 for "Memory device storing a first, second, and third bit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,201, issued on May 26, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Memory device storing a first, second, and third bit" was invented by Ryu Ogiwara (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Hidehiro Shiga (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan) and Daisaburo Takashima (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a device includes: a memory cell coupled to a bit line and configured to store first data including first, second, and third bits; and a sense amplification circuit configured to perform a first comparison between a bit line voltage and a first reference voltage, and a second comparison between the bit line voltage a...