ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,659, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Adaptively programming memory cells in different modes to optimize performance" was invented by Karthik Sarpatwari (Boise, Idaho), Fabio Pellizzer (Boise, Idaho) and Nevil N. Gajera (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatus to determine, in response to a command to write data into a set of memory cells, a programming mode of a set of memory cell to optimize performance in retrieving the data back from the set of memory cells. For example, based on usages of a memory region containing the memory cell set, a predictive m...