US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Aug. 11 for "State dependent suspend-resume-go for performance improvement in a memory device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,149, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"State dependent suspend-resume-go for performance improvement in a memory device" was invented by Albert Chen (Milpitas, Calif.), Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, Calif.) and Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The memory device includes a memory block with an array of memory cells that are arranged word lines. The memory device also includes circuitry that is configured to program the memory cells of a selected word line of the plurality of word lines. During programming, the circuitry is configured to, in a program loop, apply a p...