US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 6 for "Memory for programming data states of memory cells" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,790, issued on May 6, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory for programming data states of memory cells" was invented by Koichi Kawai (Yokohama, Japan), Yoshihiko Kamata (Yokohama, Japan) and Akira Goda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memories might include a controller configured to cause the memory to apply a first voltage level indicative of a data state of a memory cell of an array of memory cells to a control gate of a transistor, retain the first voltage level on the control gate of the transistor, connect a first source/drain of the transistor to a data line corresponding to the memory cell while...