US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Sub-block protection for memory devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,897, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Sub-block protection for memory devices" was invented by Parth Amin (Fremont, Calif.) and Jayavel Pachamuthu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to an apparatus including a control circuit connected to the word lines and bit lines. The control circuit is configured to: in response to transitioning from a first operating mode to a second operating mode, perform a check operation for identifying reliability issues on a set of word lines of a memory block; and in response to results of the check o...