US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 17 for "Neighbor plane disturb (NPD) detection for memory devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,029, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Neighbor plane disturb (NPD) detection for memory devices" was invented by Sai Gautham Thoppa (San Jose, Calif.), Parth Amin (Fremont, Calif.) and Long Pham (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in a plurality of planes and control circuitry configured to perform a multi-plane programming operation in which memory cells in each of the plurality of planes are programmed in a single programming operation. To perform the multi-plane programming operation, the control circuity ...