US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Jan. 27 for "Identify the programming mode of memory cells based on cell statistics obtained during reading of the memory cells" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,054, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Identify the programming mode of memory cells based on cell statistics obtained during reading of the memory cells" was invented by Karthik Sarpatwari (Boise, Idaho), Fabio Pellizzer (Boise, Idaho) and Nevil N. Gajera (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and apparatus to determine a programming mode of a set of memory cells without having bit values stored in the memory cells to include an identifier of the programming mode. During the test of which of the memory cells in the set is in a lowest voltage region, which is a common...