US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 31 for "Reduction in chip area through design-technology co-optimization" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,264, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Reduction in chip area through design-technology co-optimization" was invented by Ankit Rehani (Burari, India), Chao Qin (Foster City, Calif.) and Mohan Vamsi Dunga (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-stage charge pumps use a modular structure in which each stage include a pair of legs, or current paths, between the stage input and the stage output. Each leg includes a stage boosting capacitor having a first plate connected to the current path and a second plate connected to receive one of a pair of non-overlapping clock sig...