US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on June 30 for "Analog bitscan techniques in a memory device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,962, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Analog bitscan techniques in a memory device" was invented by Hua-Ling Hsu (Fremont, Calif.), Henry Chin (Fremont, Calif.), Yen-Lung Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Yanwei He (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The memory device includes a memory block with a plurality of memory cells that are arranged in a plurality of word lines. Circuitry is configured to program at least some of the plurality of memory cells in a program loop or that is configured to erase at least some of the plurality of memory cells in an erase loop. During the program...