US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 6 for "Re-driving data to a sub-block during programming of multiple sub-blocks" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,791, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Re-driving data to a sub-block during programming of multiple sub-blocks" was invented by Eric N. Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Tomoko Ogura Iwasaki (San Jose, Calif.), Alessio Urbani (Rome) and Justin Bates (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to execute a programming operation to program multiple sub-blocks including a first sub-block and a second sub-block of a memory device is identified. A first drive operation is executed to load first data into a first select gate drain (SGD) associated with the first sub-block. Following completion of th...