US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Jan. 28 for "Controlled heating of a memory device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,774, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Controlled heating of a memory device" was invented by Peter Mayer (Neubiberg, Germany), Michael Dieter Richter (Ottobrunn, Germany), Martin Brox (Munich), Wolfgang Anton Spirkl (Germering, Germany) and Thomas Hein (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for controlled and mode-dependent heating of a memory device are described. In various examples, a memory device or an apparatus that includes a memory device may have circuitry configured to heat the memory device. The circuitry configured to heat the memory device may be act...