US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Oct. 6 for "Control gate signal for data retention in nonvolatile memory" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,789, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Control gate signal for data retention in nonvolatile memory" was invented by Abhijith Prakash (Milpitas, Calif.) and Anubhav Khandelwal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The nonvolatile memory includes a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells configured to store multiple data states; a word line connected to a control gate of at least one of the plurality of non-volatile memory cells; a control gate line to supply a control gate signal; a word line switch connected between the word line and the control gate line to control the potentia...