US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on April 29 for "Adaptive single-side erase to improve cell reliability" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,974, issued on April 29, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Adaptive single-side erase to improve cell reliability" was invented by Zhenni Wan (San Jose, Calif.) and Bo Lei (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes control circuitry configured to perform an erase operation to erase memory cells of a memory block and perform an erase verify operation to verify whether the memory cells were sufficiently erased. To perform the erase operation, the control circuitry is configured to supply a first erase voltage pulse, perform the erase verify operation subsequent to supplying the...