US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on April 14 for "Methods of controlling PCRAM devices in single-level-cell (SLC) and multi-level-cell (MLC) modes and a controller for performing the same methods" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,128, issued on April 14, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Methods of controlling PCRAM devices in single-level-cell (SLC) and multi-level-cell (MLC) modes and a controller for performing the same methods" was invented by Win-San Khwa (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Sheng Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Kerem Akarvardar (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide methods for configuring a phase-change random-access memory (PCRAM) structures, such as PCRAM operating in a single-level-cell (SLC) mode or a multi-level-cell (MLC) mode. Various embodiments may s...