US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on June 30 for "Identifying wordlines susceptible to deeper erase conditions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,092, issued on June 30, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Identifying wordlines susceptible to deeper erase conditions" was invented by Pitamber Shukla (San Jose, Calif.), Igor Ziper (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chris Norrie (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Srinivas Yelisetti (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a controller may identify a block of a memory device that is scheduled for an erase operation. The controller may determine, using a machine learning model or a data structure, whether a wordline of the block is susceptible to a deeper erase condition before the erase operati...