ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,120, issued on April 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Switch and hold biasing for memory cell imprint recovery" was invented by Angelo Visconti (Appiano Gentile, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for switch and hold biasing for memory cell imprint recovery are described. A memory device may be configured to perform an imprint recovery procedure that includes applying one or more recovery pulses to memory cells, where each recovery pulse is associated with a voltage polarity and includes a first portion with a first voltage magnitude and a second portion with a second voltag...