US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 17 for "Bit line timing based cell tracking quick pass write for programming non-volatile memory apparatuses" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,023, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Bit line timing based cell tracking quick pass write for programming non-volatile memory apparatuses" was invented by Ming Wang (Shanghai) and Liang Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory apparatus includes memory cells connected to word lines and configured to store a threshold voltage corresponding to data states. The memory cells are disposed in memory holes coupled to bit lines. A control means applies program pulses to selected ones of the word lines. The control means determines when the threshold voltage of each of the memory...