ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,157, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Suspend-resume-go techniques for memory devices" was invented by Yichen Wang (Shanghai), Bruce Li (Shanghai), Ming Wang (Shanghai) and Liang Li (Shanghai).
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 in a plurality of word lines. The plurality of word lines includes a plurality of selected word lines that contain selected memory cells to be erased. The memory device also includes circuitry for erasing the selected memory cells in an erase operation. During the erase operatio...