US Patent Issued to Winbond Electronics on Oct. 20 for "Method of erasing memory cells of flash memory device and an flash memory device using the same" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,691, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Method of erasing memory cells of flash memory device and an flash memory device using the same" was invented by Koying Huang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed to a method of erasing memory cells of a flash memory device including performing first erase operation to erase a block of memory cells of the flash memory device; increasing the erase bias voltage in a stepping manner until a lower edge of a distribution of threshold voltages of the block of memory cells is lower than an erase low side verify ...