US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on April 21 for "Programming erase blocks coupled to a same string" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,161, issued on April 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Programming erase blocks coupled to a same string" was invented by Daniel J. Hubbard (Boise, Idaho), Kishore K. Muchherla (San Jose, Calif.), Hong Lu (San Jose, Calif.), Xiangang Luo (Fremont, Calif.) and Akira Goda (Setagaya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can comprise receiving data corresponding to a sequence of write commands to write the data to a memory array comprising a plurality of strings of memory cells. Each string of the plurality of strings comprises: a first group of memory cells coupled to a first group of access lines and...