US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 15 for "Operations on partially programmed erase blocks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,327, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Operations on partially programmed erase blocks" was invented by Hanping Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Zhongguang Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Murong Lang (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for performing sensing operations on partially programmed erase blocks are provided. One example apparatus can include a memory array comprising a plurality of erase blocks and a controller coupled to the memory array. The controller can be configured to apply a first sensing voltage to a first access li...