US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 11 for "Techniques for multi-level chalcogenide memory cell programming" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,142, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Techniques for multi-level chalcogenide memory cell programming" was invented by Innocenzo Tortorelli (Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy), Alessandro Sebastiani (Piacenza, Italy), Mattia Robustelli (Milan) and Matteo Impala (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for improved techniques for multi-level memory cell programming are described. A memory array may receive a first command to store a first logic state in a memory cell for storing three or more logic states. The memory array may apply, as part of an erase operation, a first...