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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,891, issued on July 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Sensing time adjustment for program operation in a memory device" was invented by Yu-Chung Lien (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 sensing time 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 vertically stacked memory cells is non-programmable. A default ...