US Patent Issued to EM Microelectronic-Marin on Aug. 19 for "Method and system for reading unknown data from non-volatile memory" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,493, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to EM Microelectronic-Marin SA (Marin, Switzerland).

"Method and system for reading unknown data from non-volatile memory" was invented by Osama Khouri (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Yves Godat (Cornaux, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reading data from a non-volatile memory array having memory cells configured to store one bit information, including powering on the array, where information from at least first and second memory cells is collectively associated with one bit of sensible data; reading first and second memory cell values by comparing a reference value to an elect...