ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,017, issued on June 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Enhanced valley tracking with trim setting updates in a memory device" was invented by Ching-Huang Lu (Fremont, Calif.) and Yingda Dong (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control logic in a memory device receives a request to perform a read operation to read data from a memory array of a memory device, the request comprising an indication of a segment of the memory array where the data is stored, and performs a first coarse valley tracking calibration operation on the segment of the memory array. The control logic further configures a read ...