ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,408, issued on July 29, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Multi-state programming of memory cells" was invented by Jeremy M. Hirst (Orangevale, Calif.), Shanky K. Jain (Folsom, Calif.), Hernan A. Castro (Shingle Springs, Calif.), Richard K. Dodge (Santa Clara, Calif.) and William A. Melton (Shingle Springs, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for multi-state programming of memory cells. An embodiment includes a memory having a plurality of memory cells, and circuitry configured to program a memory cell of the plurality of memory cells to one of ...