US Patent Issued to XILINX on July 14 for "Memory lifecycle state sensors" (Alabama, New Mexico, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,977, issued on July 14, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory lifecycle state sensors" was invented by James Anderson (Madison, Ala.), Jason J. Moore (Albuquerque, N.M.), James D. Wesselkamper (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Roger D. Flateau Jr. (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples herein describe memory lifecycle state sensors. A memory lifecycle state sensor includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to write a first value to a cell of the memory at a first voltage, and the cell is storing a second value written to the cell at a second voltage that is greater than the first voltage...