ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,373, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).
"Managing program time in memory devices" was invented by Wei Qi (Wuhan, China), Guoqi Ji (Wuhan, China), Yong Nie (Wuhan, China) and Da Li (Wuhan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and systems for managing memory devices are provided. In one aspect, a method includes, during a first loop of a program operation, applying a first program voltage to a first word line, applying, to a second word line, a first pass voltage during a first stage and a second pass voltage during a second stage; during a second loop, applying a s...