ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,463, issued on March 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Three-state programming of memory cells" was invented by Hernan A. Castro (Shingle Springs, Calif.), Jeremy M. Hirst (Orangevale, Calif.), Shanky K. Jain (Folsom, Calif.), Richard K. Dodge (Santa Clara, Calif.) and William A. Melton (Shingle Springs, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for three-state programming of memory cells. An embodiment includes a memory having a plurality of memory cells, and circuitry configured to program a memory cell of the plurality of memory cells to one of ...