ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,865, issued on March 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Memory block erase protocol" was invented by Chun Sum Yeung (San Jose, Calif.), Deping He (Boise, Idaho), Ting Luo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Guang Hu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jonathan S. Parry (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods related to a memory block erase protocol. An example system includes a memory device having a memory array including a plurality of memory cells. The system further includes a processing device coupled to the memory device. The processing device is to determine a value of a program-eras...