US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Aug. 12 for "Semiconductor memory device controlling erase operation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,528, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor memory device controlling erase operation" was invented by Keita Kimura (Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan) and Kenri Nakai (Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes memory cells and a control circuit configured to control an erase operation on the memory cells. The control circuit sequentially executes, in the erase operation, a first erase process, a first erase verify process, a second erase process, and a second erase verify process on the memory cells, acquires, in the first erase...