Patents by Inventor Paing Z. Htet

Paing Z. Htet has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240087655
    Abstract: A system can include a memory device containing blocks made up of wordlines respectively connected to sets of memory cells, and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device to perform operations including responsive to receiving a read request that specifies a block, determining a value of a metric reflective of a number of programmed wordlines of the block. The operations can also include responsive to determining, based on the value of the metric, that the block is in a partially programmed state, identifying a read voltage offset corresponding to the value of the metric, and performing, using the read voltage offset, a read operation responsive to the read request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Nagendra Prasad Ganesh Rao, Paing Z. Htet, Sead Zildzic, JR., Thomas Fiala, Jian Huang, Zhenming Zhou
  • Publication number: 20230368845
    Abstract: A memory device includes a memory array having a plurality of wordlines coupled with respective memory cells of the memory array. Control logic is operatively coupled with the memory array, the control logic to perform operations including: determining, prior to performing a read operation at one or more strings of the respective memory cells, a number of wordlines that are associated with memory cells that have been programmed; adjusting, based on the number of wordlines, a read level voltage for a selected wordline of the one or more strings that is to be read during the read operation; and causing, during the read operation, the adjusted read level voltage to be applied to the selected wordline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Nagendra Prasad Ganesh Rao, Paing Z. Htet, Sead Zildzic, JR., Thomas Fiala
  • Publication number: 20230352098
    Abstract: A memory device includes a memory array and control logic, operatively coupled to the memory array, to perform operations including causing a read operation to be initiated with respect to a set of target cells, obtaining cell state information for each respective group of adjacent cells, for each target cell of the set of target cells, determining a state information bin of a set of state information bins based on the cell state information for its respective group of adjacent cells, and assigning each target cell of the set of target cells to the respective state information bin. Each state information bin of the set of state information bins defines a respective boost voltage level offset to be applied to perform boost voltage modulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Nagendra Prasad Ganesh Rao, Dheeraj Srinivasan, Paing Z. Htet, Sead Zildzic, JR., Violante Moschiano
  • Publication number: 20230307053
    Abstract: A memory array includes a block including wordlines, bitlines, and strings each connected to a respective bitline. The block is divided into a sub-blocks. Each sub-block includes a respective set of the strings, and each string of the set of strings is located at a sub-block position within its respective sub-block. Control logic performs operations including selecting each sub-block, causing a first voltage to be applied to a dummy wordline to activate a first set of dummy cells and deactivate a second set of dummy cells, and causing a second voltage to be applied to a selected wordline. Each sub-block includes a single string corresponding to an open string connected to a dummy cell of the first set of dummy cells. The second voltage causes data to be read out from each open string to a respective page buffer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Paing Z. Htet, Akira Goda, Eric N. Lee, Jeffrey S. McNeil, Junwyn A. Lacsao, Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Sead Zildzic, Violante Moschiano
  • Patent number: 11715547
    Abstract: A system includes a memory array of sub-blocks, each sub-block including groups of memory cells, and a processing device. The processing device causes a first wordline to be programmed through the sub-blocks with a mask by causing to be programmed, to a first voltage level: a first group of memory cells of a first sub-block; and a second group of memory cells of a second sub-block. The processing device further scans a second wordline that has been programmed and is coupled to the first wordline, scanning includes: causing a custom wordline voltage to be applied to the second wordline, the custom wordline voltage to select groups of memory cells corresponding to those of the first wordline programmed to the first voltage level; concurrently reading data from the selected groups of memory cells of the second wordline; and performing, using the data, an error check of the second wordline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Violante Moschiano, Sead Zildzic, Junwyn A. Lacsao, Paing Z. Htet
  • Publication number: 20230206992
    Abstract: Control logic in a memory device selects two or more blocks of a plurality of blocks to concurrently scan during a scan operation. The control logic can further cause a first voltage to be applied to a dummy word line of each block of the two or more blocks to selectively couple a string of memory cells in each block of the two or more blocks to a different sense amplifier of a set of sense amplifiers coupled with the plurality of blocks. The control logic can cause a second voltage to be applied to a selected word line of each block of the two or more blocks to read a bit stored at a respective memory cell of the string of memory cells in each block out to the set of sense amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Junwyn A. Lacsao, Jeffrey S. McNeil, Violante Moschiano, Paing Z. Htet, Sead Zildzic, Eric N. Lee
  • Publication number: 20230012644
    Abstract: A system includes a memory array of sub-blocks, each sub-block including groups of memory cells, and a processing device. The processing device causes a first wordline to be programmed through the sub-blocks with a mask by causing to be programmed, to a first voltage level: a first group of memory cells of a first sub-block; and a second group of memory cells of a second sub-block. The processing device further scans a second wordline that has been programmed and is coupled to the first wordline, scanning includes: causing a custom wordline voltage to be applied to the second wordline, the custom wordline voltage to select groups of memory cells corresponding to those of the first wordline programmed to the first voltage level; concurrently reading data from the selected groups of memory cells of the second wordline; and performing, using the data, an error check of the second wordline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Violante Moschiano, Sead Zildzic, Junwyn A. Lacsao, Paing Z. Htet
  • Patent number: 11475969
    Abstract: A system includes a memory array with sub-blocks, each sub-block having groups of memory cells. A processing device, operatively coupled with the memory array, is to perform operations including performing, after a wordline is programmed through the sub-blocks, scanning of the wordline. The scanning includes selecting, to sample first data of the wordline, a first group of the groups of memory cells of a first sub-block of the sub-blocks; selecting, to sample second data of the wordline, a second group of the groups of memory cells of a second sub-block of the sub-blocks; concurrently reading the first data from the first group and the second data from the second group of the groups of memory cells; and performing an error check of the wordline using the first data and the second data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Violante Moschiano, Sead Zildzic, Junwyn A. Lacsao, Paing Z. Htet
  • Publication number: 20220199184
    Abstract: A system includes a memory array with sub-blocks, each sub-block having groups of memory cells. A processing device, operatively coupled with the memory array, is to perform operations including performing, after a wordline is programmed through the sub-blocks, scanning of the wordline. The scanning includes selecting, to sample first data of the wordline, a first group of the groups of memory cells of a first sub-block of the sub-blocks; selecting, to sample second data of the wordline, a second group of the groups of memory cells of a second sub-block of the sub-blocks; concurrently reading the first data from the first group and the second data from the second group of the groups of memory cells; and performing an error check of the wordline using the first data and the second data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Violante Moschiano, Sead Zildzic, Junwyn A. Lacsao, Paing Z. Htet