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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 17, 2021
Applicant:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Inventors:

Dionisio Minopoli, Frattamaggiore, IT;

Marco Sforzin, Cernusco sul Naviglio, IT;

Daniele Balluchi, Cernusco sul Naviglio, IT;

Assignee:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/04 (2006.01); G11C 11/406 (2006.01); G11C 11/4076 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/40626 (2013.01); G11C 11/40615 (2013.01); G11C 11/40622 (2013.01); G11C 11/4076 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method including obtaining temperature values of at least one region of the non-volatile memory, each temperature value obtained at a given time instant, for each obtained temperature value at each given time instant, calculating the value of an operating function representative of an operating condition of the non-volatile memory, the value such operating function being time-dependent according to the temperature time-variation of such at least one region of the non-volatile memory, summing subsequent computed values of said operating function to obtain an accumulated value being representative of an elapsed fraction of a time limit associated with the at least one region of the non-volatile memory, comparing the accumulated value with a threshold value, and, based on said comparison, performing a management operation on the cells of the at least one region of the non-volatile memory when the accumulated value has a magnitude equal or greater than the threshold value.


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