Patents by Inventor Jason T. Zawodny

Jason T. Zawodny 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).

  • Patent number: 10026459
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods for storing a first element in memory cells coupled to a first sense line and a plurality of access line. The examples can include storing a second element in memory cells coupled to a second sense line and the plurality of access lines. The memory cells coupled to the first sense line can be separated from the memory cells coupled to the second sense line by at least memory cells coupled to a third sense line and the plurality of access lines. The examples can include storing the second element in the memory cells coupled to the third sense line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason T. Zawodny, Sanjay Tiwari, Richard C. Murphy
  • Patent number: 9990967
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing corner turn operations using sensing circuitry. An example apparatus comprises a first group of memory cells coupled to an access line and a plurality of sense lines and a second group of memory cells coupled to a plurality of access lines and a sense line. The example apparatus comprises a controller configured to cause a corner turn operation using sensing circuitry on an element stored in the first group of memory cells resulting in the element being stored in the second group of memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason T. Zawodny, Sanjay Tiwari
  • Publication number: 20180130515
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to compute components formed over an array of storage elements. An example apparatus comprises a base substrate material and an array of memory cells formed over the base substrate material. The array can include a plurality of access transistors comprising a first semiconductor material. A compute component can be formed over and coupled to the array. The compute component can include a plurality of compute transistors comprising a second semiconductor material. The second semiconductor material can have a higher concentration of doping ions than the first semiconductor material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventor: Jason T. Zawodny
  • Patent number: 9959923
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided for reversing data stored in memory. An example apparatus comprises an array of memory cells, a first plurality of sensing components corresponding to a respective first plurality of columns of the array, a second plurality of sensing components corresponding to a respective second plurality of columns of the array, and a plurality of shared input/output (I/O) lines (which may be referred to as SIO lines). Each one of the plurality of SIO lines can be selectively coupled to a respective subset of the first plurality of sensing components and to a respective subset of the second plurality of sensing components. The apparatus can include a controller configured to control reversing a logical sequence of data stored in a group of memory cells coupled to a first access line of the array by performing a plurality of transfer operations via the plurality of SIO lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason T. Zawodny, Glen E. Hush
  • Patent number: 9892767
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods for storing a first element in memory cells coupled to a first sense line and a plurality of access line. The examples can include storing a second element in memory cells coupled to a second sense line and the plurality of access lines. The memory cells coupled to the first sense line can be separated from the memory cells coupled to the second sense line by at least memory cells coupled to a third sense line and the plurality of access lines. The examples can include storing the second element in the memory cells coupled to the third sense line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason T. Zawodny, Sanjay Tiwari, Richard C. Murphy
  • Publication number: 20170365304
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods for storing a first element in memory cells coupled to a first sense line and a plurality of access line. The examples can include storing a second element in memory cells coupled to a second sense line and the plurality of access lines. The memory cells coupled to the first sense line can be separated from the memory cells coupled to the second sense line by at least memory cells coupled to a third sense line and the plurality of access lines. The examples can include storing the second element in the memory cells coupled to the third sense line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Jason T. Zawodny, Sanjay Tiwari, Richard C. Murphy
  • Publication number: 20170337953
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to scatter/gather in a memory device. An example apparatus comprises a memory device that includes an array of memory cells, sensing circuitry, and a memory controller coupled to one another. The sensing circuitry includes a sense amplifier and a compute component configured to implement logical operations. A channel controller is configured to receive a block of instructions, the block of instructions including individual instructions for at least one of a gather operation and a scatter operation. The channel controller is configured to send individual instructions to the memory device and to control the memory controller such that the at least one of the gather operation and the scatter operation is executed on the memory device based on a corresponding one of the individual instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Jason T. Zawodny, Kelley D. Dobelstein, Timothy P. Finkbeiner, Richard C. Murphy
  • Publication number: 20170337126
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to a memory device as the store to program instructions. An example apparatus comprises a memory device having an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry coupled to the array. The sensing circuitry includes a sense amplifier and a compute component configured to implement logical operations. A memory controller, coupled to the array and the sensing circuitry is configured to receive a block of instructions including a plurality of program instructions. The memory controller is configured to store the block of instructions in the array and retrieve program instructions to perform logical operations on the compute component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Jason T. Zawodny, Kyle B. Wheeler, Richard C. Murphy
  • Publication number: 20170336989
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for parallel writing to multiple memory device locations. An example apparatus comprises a memory device. The memory device includes an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry coupled to the array. The sensing circuitry includes a sense amplifier and a compute component configured to implement logical operations. A memory controller in the memory device is configured to receive a block of resolved instructions and/or constant data from the host. The memory controller is configured to write the resolved instructions and/or constant data in parallel to a plurality of locations the memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Jason T. Zawodny, Glen E. Hush, Troy A. Manning, Timothy P. Finkbeiner
  • Publication number: 20170309314
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing corner turn operations using sensing circuitry. An example apparatus comprises a first group of memory cells coupled to an access line and a plurality of sense lines and a second group of memory cells coupled to a plurality of access lines and one of the plurality of sense lines. The access line can be a same access line as one of the plurality of access lines. The example apparatus comprises a controller configured to cause a corner turn operation on an element stored in the first group of memory cells resulting in the element being stored in the second group of memory cells to be performed using sensing circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Jason T. Zawodny, Sanjay Tiwari
  • Publication number: 20170309316
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing corner turn operations using sensing circuitry. An example apparatus comprises a first group of memory cells coupled to an access line and a plurality of sense lines and a second group of memory cells coupled to a plurality of access lines and a sense line. The example apparatus comprises a controller configured to cause a corner turn operation using sensing circuitry on an element stored in the first group of memory cells resulting in the element being stored in the second group of memory cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Jason T. Zawodny, Sanjay Tiwari
  • Publication number: 20170285988
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to bank coordination in a memory device. A number of embodiments include a method comprising concurrently performing a memory operation by a threshold number of memory regions, and executing a command to cause a budget area to perform a power budget operation associated with the memory operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Kelley D. Dobelstein, Jason T. Zawodny, Kyle B. Wheeler
  • Publication number: 20170236564
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods for storing a first element in memory cells coupled to a first sense line and a plurality of access line. The examples can include storing a second element in memory cells coupled to a second sense line and the plurality of access lines. The memory cells coupled to the first sense line can be separated from the memory cells coupled to the second sense line by at least memory cells coupled to a third sense line and the plurality of access lines. The examples can include storing the second element in the memory cells coupled to the third sense line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Jason T. Zawodny, Sanjay Tiwari, Richard C. Murphy
  • Patent number: 9659605
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing corner turn operations using sensing circuitry. An example apparatus comprises a first group of memory cells coupled to an access line and a plurality of sense lines and a second group of memory cells coupled to a plurality of access lines and a sense line. The example apparatus comprises a controller configured to cause a corner turn operation using sensing circuitry on an element stored in the first group of memory cells resulting in the element being stored in the second group of memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason T. Zawodny, Sanjay Tiwari
  • Publication number: 20160306584
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided for reversing data stored in memory. An example apparatus comprises an array of memory cells, a first plurality of sensing components corresponding to a respective first plurality of columns of the array, a second plurality of sensing components corresponding to a respective second plurality of columns of the array, and a plurality of shared input/output (I/O) lines (which may be referred to as SIO lines). Each one of the plurality of SIO lines can be selectively coupled to a respective subset of the first plurality of sensing components and to a respective subset of the second plurality of sensing components. The apparatus can include a controller configured to control reversing a logical sequence of data stored in a group of memory cells coupled to a first access line of the array by performing a plurality of transfer operations via the plurality of SIO lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Jason T. Zawodny, Glen E. Hush