US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Read refresh techniques for nonvolatile memory devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,986, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Read refresh techniques for nonvolatile memory devices" was invented by Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wei Cao (Fremont, Calif.) and Deepanshu Dutta (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The memory device includes a plurality of programmed memory blocks containing data and at least one spare memory block that does not contain data. The memory device also includes control circuitry that is configured to perform a plurality of read operations on the programmed memory blocks. Without having reprogrammed the memory cells of any of the plur...