US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 4 for "Inverse erase for memory components" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,524, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Inverse erase for memory components" was invented by Zhongguang Xu (San Jose, Calif.) and Ronit Roneel Prakash (Minato City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed system configures a system component, such as a memory sub-system controller, to efficiently erase memory blocks. The controller receives a request to erase an individual memory component of a set of memory components. The controller applies an erase pulse to the individual memory component in response to the request. The controller, following application of the erase pulse, applies a...