ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,140, issued on April 14, was assigned to MACRONIX International Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Soft programming method and erasing method for memory device" was invented by Chih-Wei Hu (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Chih-Chang Hsieh (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Teng-Hao Yeh (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Hang-Ting Lue (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soft programming method and an erasing method for a memory device having n (positive integer) word lines are provided. The soft programming method includes: applying m (positive integer) programming pulses to the j-th word line of the n word lines, where j is a positive integer...