US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Aug. 19 for "Apparatus and method for selectively reducing charge pump speed during erase operations" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,491, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for selectively reducing charge pump speed during erase operations" was invented by Abu Naser Zainuddin (San Ramon, Calif.), Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, Calif.), Mark Shlick (Ganey-Tikva, Israel) and Shemmer Choresh (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of non-volatile memory cells, a charge pump circuit configured to receive a clock signal and provide a plurality of voltages to the non-volatile memory cells, and a control circuit coupled to the non-volatile memory cells a...