US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 14 for "Address path routing reduction strategy for nonvolatile memory decoders" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,948, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Address path routing reduction strategy for nonvolatile memory decoders" was invented by Nicolas Irizarry (Folsom, Calif.), Jaydip Patel (Folsom, Calif.), Nidhi Varshney (Bangalore, India) and Christopher J. Petti (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To program MRAM memory cells current must flow from the memory cell's corresponding bit line to its corresponding word line or from the word line to bit line. To accomplish this, the bit line and word line decoders must be capable of sourcing current (when driving a line positive) and ...