US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on April 7 for "Power saving during open block read with large block openness" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,495, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Power saving during open block read with large block openness" was invented by Abu Naser Zainuddin (San Ramon, Calif.), Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, Calif.) and Deepanshu Dutta (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory apparatus includes memory cells connected to word lines and operable in one of a first read condition in which a word line voltage of the word lines is discharged and a second read condition in which the word line voltage of the word lines is coupled up to a residual voltage level. A control ...