US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Single block mode block handling for single-side GIDL erase" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,990, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Single block mode block handling for single-side GIDL erase" 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: "A memory device includes a memory block including a plurality of sub-blocks each including a plurality of memory cells and control circuitry configured to perform single-side erase operations on the memory block in a sub-block mode in which a selected sub-block of the plurality of sub-blocks in the memory block is erased while unselected sub-blocks of the plurality of sub-b...