US Patent Issued to Intel NDTM US on Dec. 2 for "Enhanced IO interface for plc program and program-suspend-resume operations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,817, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intel NDTM US LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Enhanced IO interface for plc program and program-suspend-resume operations" was invented by Aliasgar S. Madraswala (Folsom, Calif.) and Sagar Upadhyay (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for Enhanced IO Interface for PLC program and program-suspend-resume operations. A NAND memory device includes blocks of single-level cell (SLC) memory and multi-level cell (MLC) memory storing n-bits per cell such as quad-level cell (QLC) or penta-level cell (PLC) memory. The NAND memory device further includes a plurality of page buffer...