US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on April 7 for "Non-volatile memory with hybrid routing for shared word line switches" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,462, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Non-volatile memory with hybrid routing for shared word line switches" was invented by Guangyuan Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Junsong Xing (San Jose, Calif.) and Fumiaki Toyama (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Word line switches are used to connect word lines to sources of voltage to perform memory operations. To save room in a non-volatile memory, it is proposed to share word line switches between neighboring memory arrays. To implement shared word line switches, two types of routing will be used: high metal routing for some shared w...