US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 19 for "System usage of a fast read mode for read performance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,179, issued on May 19, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"System usage of a fast read mode for read performance" was invented by Yu-Chung Lien (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a memory device and a processing device, which is coupled to the memory device. The processing device receives a read command to be performed on a set of memory cells of the memory device. The processing device determines whether a reliability metric satisfies a threshold criterion associated with the memory device. Responsive to determining that the reliability metric s...