US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 24 for "Memories for performing successive programming operations" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,851, issued on June 24, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memories for performing successive programming operations" was invented by Umberto Siciliani (Rubano, Italy), Violante Moschiano (Avezzano, Italy), Walter Di Francesco (Silvi, Italy) and Dheeraj Srinivasan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memories might include a controller configured to cause the memory to prepare a first plurality of memory cells of a block of memory cells for programming from an initialization state of the block of memory cells, program the first data to the first plurality of memory cells, and, in response to receiving...