US Patent Issued to Winbond Electronics on Sept. 8 for "Memory device and data erasing method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,710, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Memory device and data erasing method thereof" was invented by Ju-Chieh Cheng (Taichung City, Taiwan), Lung-Chi Cheng (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Shan-Hsuan Tsai (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Yu-Cheng Chuang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device and a data erasing method are provided. The data erasing method includes: performing a first data erasing operation on a memory block, wherein the memory block includes a first word line to an Nth word line, and N is a positive integer greater than 1; performing an erase ve...