US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on June 2 for "Read for memory cell with threshold switching selector" (Arizona, Idaho, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,546, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Read for memory cell with threshold switching selector" was invented by Ward Parkinson (Boise, Idaho), Michael Nicolas Albert Tran (San Jose, Calif.) and Thomas Trent (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology for reading memory cells in a cross-bar memory array. Each cell has a threshold switching selector in series with a programmable resistance memory element. A current diverting resistor is connected to a selected word line while a read current is driven to the selected word line. Driving the read current to the selected word line c...