US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Feb. 3 for "Boost-by-deck during a program operation on a memory device" (Italian, Singaporean, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,188, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Boost-by-deck during a program operation on a memory device" was invented by Leo Raimondo (Avezzano, Italy), Violante Moschiano (Avezzano, Italy), Shyam Sunder Raghunathan (Singapore) and Akira Goda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control logic in a memory device initiates a program operation on a memory array comprising a top deck and bottom deck. During a seeding phase of the program operation, the control logic causes a first positive voltage to be applied to a first plurality of wordlines of the memory array, wherein the first plurality of wordlin...