US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 11 for "Program verify pairing in a multi-level cell memory device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,163, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Program verify pairing in a multi-level cell memory device" was invented by Eric N. Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Luyen Vu (San Jose, Calif.), Lawrence Celso Miranda (San Jose, Calif.) and Jeffrey Ming-Hung Tsai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control logic in a memory device initiates a loop of a program operation comprising (a) a program phase where a plurality of memory cells associated with a selected wordline in a block of the memory array are programmed to respective programming levels and (b) a corresponding program verify phase. The con...