US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on April 15 for "Multiple stage fuse circuitry for counting failure events" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,706, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Multiple stage fuse circuitry for counting failure events" was invented by Daniel Joseph Linnen (Limestone, Tenn.), Kirubakaran Periyannan (Saratoga, Calif.) and Elliott Peter Rill (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates in some aspects to an apparatus that includes stages of a failure event counting circuit including an Nth stage where N refers to an arbitrary stage of the stages of the failure event counting circuit. The Nth stage may include an Nth fuse trigger circuit configured to receive an event detector signa...