US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Program verify word line ramping delay for lower current consumption mode" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,260, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Program verify word line ramping delay for lower current consumption mode" was invented by Abu Naser Zainuddin (San Ramon, Calif.), Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, Calif.) and Toru Miwa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory apparatus and method of operation are provided. The apparatus includes memory cells connected to word lines and configured to retain a threshold voltage corresponding to one of a plurality of data states. A control means ramps up and applies a read voltage to unselected ones of the word lines while applying verification p...