US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on April 7 for "Pulse based multi-level cell programming" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,450, issued on April 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Pulse based multi-level cell programming" was invented by Hernan A. Castro (Shingle Springs, Calif.), Mattia Boniardi (Cormano, Italy) and Innocenzo Tortorelli (Cernusco Sul Naviglio, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for pulse based multi-level cell programming are described. A memory device may identify an intermediate logic state to store to a multi-level memory cell capable of storing three or more logic states. The memory device may apply a first pulse with a first polarity to the memory cell to store a SET or RESET s...