ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,154, issued on June 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Write-once memory encoded data" was invented by Xiangyu Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Eric N. Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Akira Goda (Setagaya, Japan), Kishore K. Muchherla (Fremont, Calif.), Haibo Li (Cupertino, Calif.) and Huai-Yuan Tseng (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving first data, determining a number of programming operations performed on a plurality of flash memory cells subsequent to a most recent erase operation performed on the plurality of flash memory cells, encoding the first data to provide a first write-on...