US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on April 21 for "Lower vread for erased word lines in post-write dummy reads" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,153, issued on April 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Lower vread for erased word lines in post-write dummy reads" was invented by Yanwei He (Fremont, Calif.), Henry Chin (San Jose, Calif.) and Shota Murai (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory block including a plurality of memory cells and control circuitry configured to perform a dummy read operation to transition memory cells of the memory block from a first read condition to a second read condition. To perform the dummy read operation, the control circuitry is configured to, subsequent to performing a ...