US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Reduced current sensing techniques" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,892, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Reduced current sensing techniques" was invented by Wei Cao (Fremont, Calif.), Chin-Yi Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device that has a memory block with a plurality of word lines is provided. The memory device also includes circuitry that is configured to read data in a selected word line. The circuitry sets a reference voltage at a reduced voltage that is less than a default voltage and applies the reference voltage to the selected word line and performs a first read operation o...