US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Bipolar decoders for nonvolatile memory" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,645, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Bipolar decoders for nonvolatile memory" was invented by Nicolas Irizarry (Folsom, Calif.), Jaydip Patel (Folsom, Calif.), Christopher J. Petti (Mountain View, Calif.) and Vincent Shih (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To program MRAM memory cells current must flow from the memory cell's corresponding bit line to its corresponding word line or from the word line to bit line. To accomplish this, the bit line and word line decoders must be capable of sourcing current (when driving a line positive) and sinking current (when pulling the...