US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on April 21 for "Apparatus and methods for detecting coupling faults in non-volatile memory devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,175, issued on April 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for detecting coupling faults in non-volatile memory devices" was invented by Xiaochen Zhu (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided that includes a memory die including non-volatile memory cells coupled to a signal line, a switching circuit including a control terminal coupled to a first conductor, the switching circuit configured to selectively couple the signal line to a power supply based on a signal level on the first conductor, a second conductor capacitively coupled to the first conduct...