US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Read in multi-tier non-volatile memory" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,840, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Read in multi-tier non-volatile memory" was invented by Manoj Shenoy (Kochi, India), Gopu S (Kollam, India) and Binoy Jose Panakkal (Kochi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology for reading memory cells in three-dimensional memory having multiple tiers. The memory system erases the tiers within each block independently. Then, memory cells in the tiers are programmed by units such as word lines. The memory system determines one or more read parameters for the selected tier based on the programmed/erased states of the other tiers in the block...