US Patent Issued to Macronix International on Sept. 8 for "Memory programming operation comprising preprogramming memory cells" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,652, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Macronix International Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory programming operation comprising preprogramming memory cells" was invented by Che-Ping Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ya-Jui Lee (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory controller receives a command to program information to a memory storage array controlled by the memory controller. The memory controller determines a target memory state to store the information, and a target threshold voltage level corresponding to the target memory state. Based at least on the target memory state, the memory controller determines one or m...