US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 18 for "Predictive program verification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,035, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Predictive program verification" was invented by Jungmi Ko (Santa Clara, Calif.), Junghwan Lee (Cupertino, Calif.), Byungkwan Jeong (San Jose, Calif.), Kwangho Baek (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Seong Je Park (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory array comprises a plurality of memory cells. Control logic coupled to the memory array can cause a program voltage to be applied to a subset of the plurality of memory cells to be programmed to a specified logical level, where the specified logical level is associated with a group of logical levels....