US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Managing erase fails due to single defective word line" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,380, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Managing erase fails due to single defective word line" was invented by Abhijith Prakash (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory apparatus includes memory cells connected to word lines and configured to retain a threshold voltage corresponding to data states. A control means is configured to erase the memory cells in an erase operation. The control means is also configured to apply each of a series of programming pulses of a program voltage followed by verification pulses of a plurality of program verify voltages each associated w...