US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Nonvolatile memory with ongoing program read" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,134, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Nonvolatile memory with ongoing program read" was invented by Hua-Ling Cynthia Hsu (Fremont, Calif.), Victor Avila (San Jose, Calif.) and Henry Chin (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes control circuits configured to connect to a plurality of non-volatile memory cells. The control circuits are configured to receive a read command directed to at least one logical page of data during a program operation to store the at least one logical page of data in a plurality of non-volatile memory cells. The control circuits are...