US Patent Issued to Crossbar on Oct. 7 for "Erase algorithm with a weak program pulse for non-volatile memory" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,811, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Crossbar Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Erase algorithm with a weak program pulse for non-volatile memory" was invented by Zhi Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sung Hyun Jo (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jordan Frick (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved erase techniques and apparatuses can improve performance and longevity of non-volatile memory. Various disclosed techniques include performing an erase operation(s) on a group of such memory cells, followed by a weak program operation. One or more subsequent erase-verify operations can be implemented until no erase disturb states are detected...