US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Pre-charge unselected block word line before program" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,155, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Pre-charge unselected block word line before program" was invented by Qinghua Zhao (San Carlos, Calif.), Mohan Vamsi Dunga (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Gwang Yeong Stanley Jeong (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology for operating word line switch (WLSW) transistors that are configured to provide voltages to word lines in non-volatile storage such as NAND. Each WLSW transistor has a source terminal that may be connected to a word line in order to provide an operating voltage to that word line. In an aspect, voltages are applied to a...