ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,953, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Wipe-out and verification of a non-volatile memory" was invented by Ivan Jesus Rebollo Pimentel (Graz, Austria), Jorge Ernesto Perez Chamorro (Preverenges, Switzerland) and Peter Bukovjan (Graz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for performing a wipe-out and verification of a plurality of non-volatile memory (NVM) cells. The method includes performing an operation to set all the plurality of NVM cells to a single state. The single state may be one of a conducing or non-conducting state depending on the NVM architecture. After the op...