US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 23 for "Selectively programming retired wordlines of a memory device" (American, Italian, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,002, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Selectively programming retired wordlines of a memory device" was invented by Kishore Kumar Muchherla (San Jose, Calif.), Akira Goda (Tokyo), Jeffrey S. McNeil (Nampa, Idaho), Niccolo' Righetti (Boise, Idaho), Silvia Beltrami (Almenno San Bartolomeo, Italy), Violante Moschiano (Avezzano, Italy) and Ugo Russo (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device comprises an array of memory cells organized into a plurality of wordlines, and a processing device to perform processing operations that receive a program command specifying a memory unit...