Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Responding to power loss
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Application No.: US17007235Application Date: 2020-08-31
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Publication No.: US11017868B2Publication Date: 2021-05-25
- Inventor: Rainer Bonitz
- Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Applicant Address: US ID Boise
- Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US ID Boise
- Agency: Dicke, Billig & Czaja, PLLC
- Main IPC: G11C11/34
- IPC: G11C11/34 ; G11C16/34 ; G11C16/08 ; G11C16/30 ; G11C16/10 ; G11C16/22 ; G11C16/26 ; G11C16/04 ; G11C14/00

Abstract:
Methods of operating memory might include storing information indicative of a data value of a digit of data stored in a particular memory cell of the memory prior to programming a subsequent digit of data to the particular memory cell, programming the subsequent digit of data to the particular memory cell, monitoring a voltage level of a supply voltage to the memory while programming the subsequent digit of data, and, if the voltage level of the supply voltage falls below a threshold while programming the subsequent digit of data and the information indicative of the data value of the digit of data has a particular logic level, causing a change in threshold voltage of one memory cell of a pair of gate-connected non-volatile memory cells, and inhibiting the other memory cell of the pair of gate-connected non-volatile memory cells from a change in threshold voltage.
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