ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,331, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).

"Programming methods of memory, memories, and memory systems" was invented by Ke Ke (Wuhan, China), Li Xiang (Wuhan, China), Xufeng Zhou (Wuhan, China) and Zhipeng Dong (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a programming method of a memory, a memory, and a memory system, and relates to the technical field of semiconductor chips. The method includes: applying a first program voltage to a first type of selected word lines and a reference voltage to unselected word lines adjacent to the first type of sele...