US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 17 for "Dynamic bit line voltage during program verify to provide more threshold voltage budget" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,030, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Dynamic bit line voltage during program verify to provide more threshold voltage budget" was invented by Ming Wang (Shanghai), Xuan Tian (Shanghai) and Liang Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory apparatus is provided and includes memory cells connected to word lines and coupled to bit lines and configured to retain a threshold voltage corresponding to data states. A control means determines ones of the data states for a first set of the memory cells connected to a selected word line and for a second set of the memory cells connect...