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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tyler Lowrey, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel Xu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Ovonyx, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/115 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 1/115 ;
Abstract
Briefly, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a method and an apparatus to read a phase change memory is provided, wherein the method includes zero biasing unselected memory cells during reading of a selected memory cell.