US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Multi-plane nonvolatile memory with serial encoder and decoder circuits" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,119, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Multi-plane nonvolatile memory with serial encoder and decoder circuits" was invented by Alvin Joshua (Fujisawa, Japan), Yasuyuki Fujihara (Fujisawa, Japan) and Hardwell Chibvongodze (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes control circuits configured to connect to a plurality of planes of a nonvolatile memory array. The control circuits are configured to convert a plurality of parallel signals to a plurality of serial signals, send subsets of the plurality of serial signals to respective control circuits for each plane ...