ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,892, issued on July 21, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Method of optimizing erasure and programming pass voltage" was invented by Cheng Han Lee (Taichung, Taiwan), Fang Li Li (Taichung, Taiwan) and Jun-Yao Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of optimizing pass voltage including: determining a sweet point of an initial pass voltage; monitoring a pulse number of ISPP; obtaining a shift of a low boundary value of the pass voltage by a shift of the pulse number of the ISPP at different cycles; monitoring a pulse number of ISPE; obtaining a shift of a high boundar...