US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Jan. 13 for "Apparatus and methods for programming data states of memory cells" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,338, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatus and methods for programming data states of memory cells" was invented by Akira Goda (Tokyo), Koichi Kawai (Yokohama, Japan), Huai-Yuan Tseng (San Ramon, Calif.) and Yoshihiko Kamata (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memories might include a controller configured to cause the memory to apply a programming pulse to a memory cell, perform an analog verify phase on the memory cell, in response to the analog verify phase, apply a first voltage level to a corresponding data line of the memory cell that is selected from a group consisting...