ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,436, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Compact data latches" was invented by Anirudh Amarnath (Fremont, Calif.) and Adit Pendam (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology for compact data latches. Two global driver transistors are each connected to a large number of compact data latches. The global driver transistors may be operated during a simultaneous latch operation in each of the compact data latches. A latch operation may discharge a high voltage from a latch output, depending on whether that output is to go from the high voltage to a low voltage. Such discharge co...