ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,569, issued on March 3, was assigned to Silicon Storage Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Array of non-volatile memory cells to store data in analog form and digital form" was invented by Hieu Van Tran (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Numerous embodiments of an array of non-volatile memory cells are disclosed herein. In one example, a system comprises an array of non-volatile memory cells arranged into rows and columns; wherein in a first mode, the array stores digital data; and wherein in a second mode, the array stores analog data."

The patent was filed on March 14, 2024, under Application No. 18/604,884.

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