US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 8 for "Pre-program pass to reduce system buffer requirement when programming quad-level cell (QLC) memory" (Idaho, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,582, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Pre-program pass to reduce system buffer requirement when programming quad-level cell (QLC) memory" was invented by Ratna Priyanka Sistla (Meridian, Idaho), Dan Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tomoko Ogura Iwasaki (San Jose, Calif.), Caixia Yang (Boise, Idaho) and Lee-eun Yu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory array configured as quad-level cell (QLC) memory and a control logic operatively coupled to the memory array. The control logic identifies a first two bits of particular pages of a QLC logical state. The contro...