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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2014
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ningde Xie, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Robert W. Faber, Hillsboro, OR (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Provided is a non-volatile memory device comprising a plurality of memory cells and memory control logic that when executed performs operations comprising initiating a refresh operation; in response to the refresh operation, performing a read of the memory cells to read values of the memory cells; determining whether the read memory cells have a first value or a second value; and for the memory cells determined to have the first value, rewriting the determined first value to the memory cell, wherein the rewriting operation is not performed with respect to memory cells determined to have the second value.