US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 24 for "Quick pass write with quasi-low verify high level" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,653, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Quick pass write with quasi-low verify high level" was invented by Ryohei Shoji (Yokohama, Japan).

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