US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 2 for "Dynamic latches above a three-dimensional non-volatile memory array" (Idaho, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,731, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Dynamic latches above a three-dimensional non-volatile memory array" was invented by Jiewei Chen (Meridian, Idaho), Mithun Kumar Ramasahayam (Meridian, Idaho), Tomoko Ogura Iwasaki (San Jose, Calif.), June Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Luyen Vu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control logic in a memory device causes a pass voltage to be applied to a plurality of wordlines of a block of a memory array of the memory device, the block comprising a plurality of sub-blocks, and the pass voltage to boost a channel potential of each of the pluralit...