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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:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2015
Applicant:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/00 (2006.01); G11C 11/14 (2006.01); G11C 13/00 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 29/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 13/004 (2013.01); G11C 11/5678 (2013.01); G11C 13/0069 (2013.01); G11C 13/0097 (2013.01); G11C 29/006 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods including drift acceleration in resistance variable memory. A number of embodiments include applying a programming signal to the resistance variable memory cell to program the cell to a target state, subsequently applying a pre-read signal to the resistance variable memory cell to accelerate a drift of a resistance of the programmed cell, and subsequently applying a read signal to the resistance variable memory cell.