US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Suppression of peak ICC during block selection in non-volatile memories" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,640, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Suppression of peak ICC during block selection in non-volatile memories" was invented by Abu Naser Zainuddin (Milpitas, Calif.), Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, Calif.) and Sai Gautham Thoppa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce Icc spikes during the operation of a non-volatile memory device, different block decoding parameters can be used based on whether a block is open or closed. For blocks that are open or in other high Icc conditions, such as first read, the timing for the block decode control signals, the block decode voltage leve...