US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on June 2 for "Suspend-resume-go techniques for memory devices" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,569, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Suspend-resume-go techniques for memory devices" was invented by Nidhi Agrawal (San Jose, Calif.), Radhika Radhakrishnan (Bengaluru, India), Tosha Pandya (San Jose, Calif.) and Bo Lei (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The memory device includes an array of memory cells that are arranged in word lines and are programmed to contain data. Circuitry is configured to erase the memory cells of the memory block in an erase operation. During erase, the circuitry is configured to begin an erase operation to erase the memory cells and suspend th...