US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Sept. 16 for "Method for programming memory" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,806, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for programming memory" was invented by I-Che Lee (Taipei, Taiwan) and Huai-Ying Huang (Jhonghe, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes setting a current level of a write signal to a first non-zero value for a first period of time. The write signal is provided to a memory element during the first period of time. The current level of the write signal is adjusted from the first non-zero value to a second non-zero value, different from the first non-zero value, for a second period of time. The write signal is...