US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 21 for "Program verify level adjustment for program operation in a memory device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,890, issued on July 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Program verify level adjustment for program operation in a memory device" was invented by Yu-Chung Lien (San Jose, Calif.), Christina Papagianni (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to perform a program operation on a set of vertically stacked memory cells of a memory device is received. A program verify level adjustment value based on a number of program erase cycles (PECs) associated with the memory device is determined responsive to determining that at least one memory cell of the set of vertic...