US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Dynamic word line boosting during programming of a memory device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,158, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Dynamic word line boosting during programming of a memory device" was invented by Han-Ping Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Yanjie Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The memory device includes a memory block, which includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in a plurality of word lines. The memory device also includes control circuitry in communication with the memory block. The control circuitry is configured to perform a programming operation to program the memory cells of a selected word line of the plurality of word lines. Duri...