US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on April 14 for "Storing data on multi-level cell memory cells" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,191, issued on April 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Storing data on multi-level cell memory cells" was invented by Roy Leonard (San Jose, Calif.), Dave Holmstrom (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Joseph L. Turmes (Nampa, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to a system for high efficiency storage in high capacity non-volatile solid state applications. The system includes a memory device and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device performs operations including receiving a request to program data, storing the data by default in a first type of s...