US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on May 5 for "Selector only memory write operation" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,428, issued on May 5, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Selector only memory write operation" was invented by Mark Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Dimitri Houssameddine (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Raj Ramanujan (Federal Way, Wash.) and Christopher J. Petti (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology for programming selector-only memory cells in a cross-point memory structure. The threshold switching memory element may include, but is not limited to, an Ovonic Threshold Switch (OTS). The memory system removes Vth drift in the threshold switching memory elements prior to programming. The Vth drift is...