IMEC Assigned Patent

IMEC vzw, Leuven, Belgium, has been assigned a patent (12406732) developed by Verreck; Devin, Pellenberg, Belgium, and Rosmeulen; Maarten, Ghent, Belgium, for a “method of programming flash memory.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “This disclosed technology relates to a programmable NAND flash memory and a method for operating the NAND flash memory. The method comprises applying a first voltage to the first gate and a pass voltage to one or more word lines to allow charge to inject into the channel layer and form charge packets. Each charge packet can be arranged next to one of the second gates. The method further comprises applying a programming voltage to the word lines to move the charge packets from the channel layer into the memory cells associated with the second gates next to which they are arranged.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-09-28 (18/477456).