US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Loop dependent bit line and read biases in a memory device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,954, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Loop dependent bit line and read biases in a memory device" 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 an array of memory cells arranged in a word lines and a one common source line (CELSRC) driver. Control circuitry is configured to program the memory cells of a selected word line in a plurality of program loops. During the program loops, the control circuitry sets a voltage of the CELSRC driver to approximately zero Volts, applies a verify voltage to the...