Patents by Inventor KEVIN MAJERUS

KEVIN MAJERUS 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: 20220068430
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for repairing defective memory cells in regions of a memory array associated with high or low priority levels are disclosed. A repair address generator may be configured to generate a memory address map for repair (e.g., blowing fuses at a fuse circuit), depending on whether certain applications may operate at a high priority level indicative of a low bit error rate or a low priority level indicative of a higher bit error rate. For example, a specified error rate associated with a low priority level may correspond to a threshold error rate for certain applications, such as a neural network application that stores trained weights. Such neural network applications may access trained weights being partially stored in defective memory cells, with the least significant bits of such trained weights being stored in defective memory cells that are not repaired according to the memory address map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: DAVID HULTON, TAMARA SCHMITZ, JONATHAN D. HARMS, JEREMY CHRITZ, KEVIN MAJERUS
  • Patent number: 11183266
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for repairing defective memory cells in regions of a memory array associated with high or low priority levels are disclosed. A repair address generator may be configured to generate a memory address map for repair (e.g., blowing fuses at a fuse circuit), depending on whether certain applications may operate at a high priority level indicative of a low bit error rate or a low priority level indicative of a higher bit error rate. For example, a specified error rate associated with a low priority level may correspond to a threshold error rate for certain applications, such as a neural network application that stores trained weights. Such neural network applications may access trained weights being partially stored in defective memory cells, with the least significant bits of such trained weights being stored in defective memory cells that are not repaired according to the memory address map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: David Hulton, Tamara Schmitz, Jonathan D. Harms, Jeremy Chritz, Kevin Majerus
  • Publication number: 20200411132
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for repairing defective memory cells in regions of a memory array associated with high or low priority levels are disclosed. A repair address generator may be configured to generate a memory address map for repair (e.g., blowing fuses at a fuse circuit), depending on whether certain applications may operate at a high priority level indicative of a low bit error rate or a low priority level indicative of a higher bit error rate. For example, a specified error rate associated with a low priority level may correspond to a threshold error rate for certain applications, such as a neural network application that stores trained weights. Such neural network applications may access trained weights being partially stored in defective memory cells, with the least significant bits of such trained weights being stored in defective memory cells that are not repaired according to the memory address map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: DAVID HULTON, TAMARA SCHMITZ, JONATHAN D. HARMS, JEREMY CHRITZ, KEVIN MAJERUS