ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,595, issued on June 10, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Shortened single-level cell memory programming" was invented by Leo Raimondo (Avezzano, Italy), Federica Paolini (Francavilla al Mare, Italy), Umberto Siciliani (Rubano, Italy), Violante Moschiano (Avezzano, Italy), Gianfranco Valeri (Pescina, Italy), Davide Esposito (Silvi, Italy) and Walter Di Francesco (Avezzano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes an array of memory cells configured as single-level cell memory and control logic operatively coupled to the array of memory cells. The control logic performs operations including: ...