US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 25 for "Operations on partially programmed blocks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,888, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Operations on partially programmed blocks" was invented by Hanping Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhongguang Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for performing read operations on partially programmed blocks are provided. One example apparatus can include a controller configured to apply a read voltage to the first inner word line in the array of memory cells during a read operation on the first inner word line, apply a first pass voltage to a second inner word line adjacent to the first inner word line and to a third i...