US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Real time ramp rate adjustment for better performance and current consumption tradeoff" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,255, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Real time ramp rate adjustment for better performance and current consumption tradeoff" was invented by Abhijith Prakash (Milpitas, Calif.), Parth Amin (Fremont, Calif.) and Anubhav Khandelwal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory apparatus includes memory cells each connected to one of a plurality of word lines and configured to store a threshold voltage corresponding to one of a plurality of data states. The memory apparatus also includes a control means configured to identify ones of the plurality of word lines as slow word lin...