US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Advanced dummy word line ramp down after program verify for memory devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,851, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Advanced dummy word line ramp down after program verify for memory devices" was invented by Jiacen Guo (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for pre-charging a memory device. The memory device comprises memory cells connected to data word lines and in a plurality of channels. The word lines comprise first data word lines and second data word lines separated by dummy word lines. Examples include performing a program-verify operation to verify programming of one or more memory cells connected to a selected da...