US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Current monitoring in a memory device to improve short detection" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,226, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Current monitoring in a memory device to improve short detection" was invented by Xuan Tian (Shanghai), Liang Li (Shanghai) and Peter Chu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The memory device includes a memory block with an array of memory cells that are arranged in a plurality of word lines. The memory device also includes control circuitry that is configured to perform a programming operation or an erasing operation. During the programming or erasing operation, the circuitry is configured to, while applying a voltage to at least one selected...