US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Jan. 27 for "Read soft bits through boosted modulation following reading hard bits" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,064, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Read soft bits through boosted modulation following reading hard bits" was invented by Sivagnanam Parthasarathy (Carlsbad, Calif.), James Fitzpatrick (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Patrick Robert Khayat (San Diego) and AbdelHakim S. Alhussien (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory sub-system configured to read soft bit data by adjusting the read voltage applied to read hard bit data from memory cells. For example, in response to a read command identifying a group of memory cells, a memory device is to: read the group of memory cells using a f...