US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 16 for "Adaptive sensing time for memory operations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,026, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Adaptive sensing time for memory operations" was invented by Yu-Chung Lien (San Jose, Calif.), Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.), Murong Lang (San Jose, Calif.) and Ching-Huang Lu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses include receiving a command directed to a portion of memory. A cycle number for the portion of memory is determined. A group to which the portion of memory belongs is determined. A sensing time is determined using the cycle number and the group. The command is executed using the sensing time."

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