US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on April 21 for "Configuration method for a phase-change non-volatile memory" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,139, issued on April 21, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Configuration method for a phase-change non-volatile memory" was invented by Jawad Benhammadi (Pont de Claix, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns a method of configuration of a phase-change non-volatile memory, comprising the partitioning of said memory into a first set of one or a plurality of regions having a first maximum number of write cycles and a second set of one or a plurality of other regions having a second maximum number of write cycles greater than the first maximum number of write cycles, the fir...