US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Device mode to improve data retention for NAND MLC technology" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,636, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Device mode to improve data retention for NAND MLC technology" was invented by Ming Wang (Shanghai) and Liang Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells each configured to be programmed to a plurality of memory states and control circuitry configured to perform a programming operation to program the plurality of memory cells to respective memory states of the plurality of memory states. To perform the programming operation, the control circuity is configured to supply at least one programming pu...