US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Multi-stage programming techniques with three states per memory cell parity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,800, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Multi-stage programming techniques with three states per memory cell parity" was invented by Abhijith Prakash (Milpitas, Calif.) and Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The memory device includes a memory block with an array of memory cells arranged word lines. The memory device also includes control circuitry that is configured to program final data into a selected word line in a multi-pass programming operation that includes a first pass and a second pass. In the first pass, the control circuitry is configured to progra...