US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Variable foggy verify levels for selected checkpoint states for non-volatile memory apparatuses" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,948, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Variable foggy verify levels for selected checkpoint states for non-volatile memory apparatuses" was invented by Abhijith Prakash (Milpitas, Calif.), Sujjatul Islam (San Jose, Calif.) and Kyeongran Yoo (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory apparatus includes memory cells and a control means configured to adjust at least one of blind program pulses applied to word lines connected to the memory cells and bit line voltages applied to bit lines coupled to the memory cells in response to determining one of the word lines connect...