ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,170, issued on April 21, was assigned to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).

"Managing program operations in memory systems" was invented by Xufeng Zhou (Wuhan, China), Zhipeng Dong (Wuhan, China), Jinchi Han (Wuhan, China) and Wei Huang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for management of program operations in a memory system are described. An example system includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device includes a memory cell array and a peripheral circuit coupled to the memory cell array. The peripheral circuit obtains a first temperature, and in resp...