ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,183, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Memory apparatus and method of operation using dynamic max program loop" was invented by Parth Amin (Fremont, Calif.) and Anubhav Khandelwal (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory apparatus and method of operation are provided. The apparatus includes memory cells connected to word lines and arranged in strings and configured to retain a threshold voltage corresponding to memory states. A control circuit is configured to program the memory cells to reach one of a plurality of verify levels each corresponding the memory states using ...