US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Aug. 18 for "Apparatus and methods for in-place read refresh for nonvolatile memory devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,032, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for in-place read refresh 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 memory block with an array of memory cells that are arranged in a plurality of word lines. The memory cells are programmed to one bit per memory cell with each memory cell being either in an erased data state or a programmed data state. The memory device also includes circuitry that is configured to ...