US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on June 2 for "Bitscan techniques in a memory device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,576, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Bitscan techniques in a memory device" was invented by Yuki Fujita (Yokohama, Japan), Kei Kitamura (Chigasaki, Japan) and Takayuki Inoue (Fujisawa, Japan).

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 circuitry that is configured to program the memory cells of a selected word line of the plurality of word lines in a plurality of program loops. During at least one of the program loops, the circuitry is configured to a...