Patents by Inventor Sead Zildzic, JR.

Sead Zildzic, JR. 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: 20240071484
    Abstract: A memory device includes an array of memory cells, a plurality of access lines, and a controller. The array of memory cells includes a plurality of strings of series-connected memory cells. Each access line is connected to a control gate of a respective memory cell of each string of series-connected memory cells. The controller is configured to access the array of memory cells to program a selected memory cell of the array of memory cells to a first target level. The controller is further configured to apply a first voltage level to a first access line connected to the selected memory cell, and apply a second voltage level higher than the first voltage level to a second access line adjacent to the first access line. The controller is further configured to apply a third voltage level between the first voltage level and the second voltage level to a third access line adjacent to the first access line and connected to an erased memory cell, and sense a first threshold voltage of the selected memory cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Massimo Ernesto Bertuccio, Sead Zildzic, JR.
  • Publication number: 20240046990
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to a memory device with a fast write mode to mitigate power loss. In some implementations, the memory device may detect a condition associated with power supplied to the memory device. The memory device may detect one or more pending write operations to be performed to cause data to be written to memory cells of the memory device. The memory device may switch from a first voltage pattern, previously used by the memory device to write data to one or more memory cells of the memory device, to a second voltage pattern based on detecting the condition and based on detecting the one or more pending write operations. The memory device may perform at least one write operation, of the one or more pending write operations, using the second voltage pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Yu-Chung LIEN, Juane LI, Sead ZILDZIC, JR., Zhenming ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20240020002
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure configure a system component, such as a memory sub-system controller, to store data according to a second memory storage process instead of a first memory storage process based on an underfill threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Tomer Eliash, Sead Zildzic, JR.
  • 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: 20230307058
    Abstract: A first program pass of a multi-pass program operation is caused to be performed at a memory array. A first program voltage is applied to a wordline of a block of the memory array to program one or more memory cells during the first program pass. Subsequent to the first program pass of the multi-pass program operation, a pre-read operation is caused to be performed to read data corresponding to the first program pass and from the one or more memory cells. Whether a shift of a threshold voltage corresponding to the one or more memory cells satisfies a condition related to a threshold voltage change is determined based on the pre-read operation. Responsive to determining that the shift of the threshold voltage satisfies the condition, an updated second program voltage of a second program pass of the multi-pass program operation is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Nagendra Prasad Ganesh Rao, Sead Zildzic, JR.