ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,314, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for performing independent plane concurrent memory operations in non-volatile memory structures" was invented by Ke Zhang (Shanghai), Liang Li (Shanghai) and Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for performing a memory operation with respect to a memory structure having "N"-number of planes, each plane comprising "M"-number of blocks and "X"-number of word lines arranged in a serial order, and electrically connected with each plane are: a voltage bias source, an electronic switching component, and...