US Patent Issued to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL on April 15 for "Memory system having planes with multibit status" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,346, issued on April 15, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory system having planes with multibit status" was invented by Shuo-Nan Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Nai-Ping Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chien-Hsin Liu (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system that is based on 3D NAND flash memory of a high capacity and/or capable of high performance is provided, which includes memory planes, each including a plane core and a specific set of resources. For each memory plane of the plurality of memory planes, the technology provides (i) a corresponding plane busy (PRDY) signal indicating a bu...