ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,074, issued on May 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Enhanced gradient seeding scheme during a program operation in a memory sub-system" was invented by Vinh Q. Diep (Hayward, Calif.), Ching-Huang Lu (Fremont, Calif.) and Yingda Dong (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control logic in a memory device initiates a program operation on a memory array, the program operation comprising a seeding phase. During the seeding phase, the control logic causes a seeding voltage to be applied to a string of memory cells in a data block of the memory array during the seeding phase of the program operation an...