US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Programming techniques to improve erase state upper tails in a memory device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,168, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Programming techniques to improve erase state upper tails in a memory device" was invented by Jiacen Guo (Cupertino, Calif.), Xue Pitner (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The memory device includes a memory block with an array of memory cells that are arranged in a plurality of word lines. The memory device also includes circuitry that programs the memory cells of a selected word line of the plurality of word lines in a plurality of program loops. In at least one of the program loops, the circuit...