US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 26 for "Reducing partial block programming using dynamic trim settings" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,223, issued on May 26, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Reducing partial block programming using dynamic trim settings" was invented by Qun Su (Boise, Idaho) and Pitamber Shukla (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems write data to a first wordline of a partially programmed block of memory. A second wordline of the block is determined to fail to satisfy a first margin threshold by comparing a first voltage threshold of the second wordline to a reference voltage. In response to the second wordline failing to satisfy the first margin threshold, a second margin test ...