ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,546, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Memory array seasoning" was invented by Andrea Martinelli (Bergamo, Italy), Claudia Palattella (Cologno Monzese, Italy), Christophe Vincent Antoine Laurent (Agrate Brianza, Italy), Ferdinando Bedeschi (Biassono, Italy) and Efrem Bolandrina (Fiorano al Serio, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for memory array seasoning are described. Some memory cells may have an undesirably high threshold voltage and thus a seasoning operation may be performed on a target memory cell. To season the target memory cell, a bit line and a word...