US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Aug. 26 for "Sense time separation in foggy-fine program to improve optimal VT width" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,813, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Sense time separation in foggy-fine program to improve optimal VT width" was invented by Xiaoyu Che (San Jose, Calif.) and Guirong Liang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells and control circuitry configured to perform a foggy-fine programming operation in which memory cells are programmed in multiple programming passes. To perform the foggy-fine programming operation, the control circuity is configured to perform a first pass of the foggy-fine programming operation on the memory cell...