US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 24 for "Programming techniques that utilize analog bitscan in a memory device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,647, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Programming techniques that utilize analog bitscan in a memory device" was invented by Hua-Ling Hsu (Fremont, Calif.), Henry Chin (Fremont, 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. The memory device also includes circuitry that is configured to program at least some of the plurality of memory cells of a selected word line of the plurality of word lines in at least one program loop of a programming...