ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,721, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Tracking RC time constant by wordline in memory devices" was invented by Tommaso Vali (Sezze, Italy) and Agostino Macerola (San Benedetto dei Marsi, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory array comprising a plurality of wordlines, and control logic, operatively coupled with the memory array. The control logic causes a measurement programming pulse to be sequentially applied to each of the plurality of wordlines of the memory array and determines respective threshold voltages stored in a number of memory cells associated wit...