US Patent Issued to MACRONIX International on July 14 for "Precharging method and programming method for selected and unselected sub-blocks of 3D memory strings in a device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,954, issued on July 14, was assigned to MACRONIX International Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Precharging method and programming method for selected and unselected sub-blocks of 3D memory strings in a device" was invented by Yu-Hung Huang (Tainan City, Taiwan), Ya-Jui Lee (Taichung City, Taiwan), Che-Ping Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yin-Jen Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a precharging method and a programming method for a 3D memory device that includes a top-deck word line group, a middle dummy word line group, a bottom-deck word line group, and a bottom dummy word line group. The prechargin...