US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 16 for "Single-level cell programming with adaptive wordline ramp rate" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,808, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Single-level cell programming with adaptive wordline ramp rate" was invented by Yu-Chung Lien (San Jose, Calif.), Joshua Garrison (Folsom, Calif.) and Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device is operatively coupled to an array of memory cells. The processing device determines that a media endurance metric value for a string of the array of memory cells satisfies a first threshold criterion based on a first threshold value. The processing device further controls, based on the media endurance metric value, a ramp ...