US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 7 for "Seeding bias control for sub-block groups in a memory device" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,191, issued on July 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Seeding bias control for sub-block groups in a memory device" was invented by Taehyun Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Kwon (San Jose, Calif.), Dong Kyo Shim (Milpitas, Calif.), Kwang Ho Kim (Pleasanton, Calif.), Erwin E. Yu (San Jose, Calif.) and Fulvio Rori (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control logic in a memory device initiates a program operation to program one or more memory cells of a first sub-block of a memory array, the program operation including a seeding phase. During the seeding phase, a first wordline voltage is caused to be applie...