US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Jan. 20 for "Toggling known patterns for reading memory cells in a memory device" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,146, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Toggling known patterns for reading memory cells in a memory device" was invented by Andrea Martinelli (Bergamo, Italy) and Ferdinando Bedeschi (Biassono, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus for a memory device. In one approach, known reference patterns are stored in a memory array. The patterns are associated with codewords stored in the memory array. A first pattern has all memory cells written to a first logic state (e.g., all logic ones), and a second pattern has all memory cells written to an opposite second logic sta...