US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on July 21 for "Programming for non-volatile memory" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,887, issued on July 21, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Programming for non-volatile memory" was invented by Fabio Enrico Carlo Disegni (Spino d'Adda, Italy), Marcella Carissimi (Treviolo, Italy), Cesare Torti (Pavia, Italy) and Davide Manfre (Pandino, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit, a circuit for generating adaptive SET pulse currents for phase-change memory (PCM) cells is disclosed. The circuit includes a first current digital-to-analog converter (IDAC) and a second IDAC, each IDAC configured to generate a bias current with a programmable profile, the programmable profile comprising ...