US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 27 for "Accelerating program-erase cycles on memory devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,531, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Accelerating program-erase cycles on memory devices" was invented by Wei Wang (Dublin, Calif.), Yu-Chung Lien (San Jose, Calif.), Wenyen Chang (San Jose, Calif.), Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Wan (San Jose, Calif.) and Ying Yu Tai (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to a system for fast-cycling a memory device. The system receives a fast-cycling start command to initiate a fast-cycling mode for the set of memory devices, the fast-cycling mode accelerating program-erase counts (PECs) of memory blocks t...