US Patent Issued to INTEL NDTM US on July 21 for "Deck reset read" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,896, issued on July 21, was assigned to INTEL NDTM US LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Deck reset read" was invented by Chao Zhang (Milpitas, Calif.), Xin Sun (Fremont, Calif.), Richard Fastow (Cupertino, Calif.), Giuseppina Puzzilli (Boise, Idaho) and Krishna K. Parat (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a storage array having multiple decks of NAND cells in a three dimensional (3D) stack. There can be any number of decks that have multiple wordlines in vertical stacks. The decks include a first deck and a second deck. Bias circuitry can apply different voltages to different decks of the storage arr...