US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods to avoid over programming at infrequent smart verify acquisition for high-performance 3D NAND" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,844, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to avoid over programming at infrequent smart verify acquisition for high-performance 3D NAND" was invented by Kyeongran Yoo (Mountain View, Calif.), Henry Chin (Fremont, Calif.), Hua-Ling Hsu (Fremont, Calif.) and Yanwei He (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of programming a memory device is disclosed herein. The method comprises the steps of: performing a smart verify operation to acquire an initial programming voltage; performing a program operation on a selected wordline starting with the initial programm...