ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,290, issued on March 31, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory devices with program verify levels based on compensation values" was invented by Tomoko Ogura Iwasaki (San Jose, Calif.), Hong-Yan Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Pamela Castalino (Boise, Idaho), Priya Vemparala Guruswamy (Boise, Idaho), Jun Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Gianluca Nicosia (Boise, Idaho) and Ji-Hye Gale Shin (Palo Alto, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes an array of memory cells and a controller configured to access the array of memory cells to program a selected memory cell of the array of memory cells to a target le...