ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,374, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Selection of an optimal single level cell programming scheme" was invented by Yu-Chung Lien (San Jose, Calif.), Dheeraj Srinivasan (San Jose, Calif.), Michael G. Miller (Boise, Idaho) and Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a memory device may receive, from a host device, a program command. The memory device may determine that the program command is associated with a single level cell (SLC) program command. The memory device may determine a size of host data associated with the program command. The memor...