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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:
Dec. 17, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 07, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jeffrey S. McNeil, Nampa, ID (US);

Kishore Kumar Muchherla, San Jose, CA (US);

Sead Zildzic, Folsom, CA (US);

Akira Goda, Tokyo, JP;

Jonathan S. Parry, Boise, ID (US);

Violante Moschiano, Avezzano, IT;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/08 (2006.01); G11C 16/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/102 (2013.01); G11C 16/08 (2013.01); G11C 16/28 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system includes a memory device including a memory array and control logic, operatively coupled with the memory array, to perform operations including receiving a set of commands to concurrently program a set of cells of the memory array with dummy data, the set of cells corresponding to a group of retired wordlines of the plurality of wordlines, in response to receiving the set of commands, obtaining the dummy data, and concurrently programming the set of cells with the dummy data by causing a ganged programming pulse to be applied to the set of cells.


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