US Patent Issued to Intel NDTM US on March 18 for "Smart prologue for nonvolatile memory program operation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,933, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel NDTM US LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Smart prologue for nonvolatile memory program operation" was invented by Pranav Chava (Folsom, Calif.), Aliasgar S. Madraswala (Folsom, Calif.), Sagar Upadhyay (Folsom, Calif.) and Bhaskar Venkataramaiah (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For a nonvolatile (NV) storage media such as NAND (not AND) media that is written by a program and program verify operation, the system can apply a smart prologue operation. A smart prologue operation can selectively apply a standard program prologue, to compute program parameters for a target subblock. T...