US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Feb. 25 for "Concurrent multi-bit self-referenced read of programmable resistance memory cells in cross-point array" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,010, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Concurrent multi-bit self-referenced read of programmable resistance memory cells in cross-point array" was invented by Nathan Franklin (Belmont, Calif.), Ward Parkinson (Boise, Idaho), Michael Grobis (Campbell, Calif.) and James O'Toole (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Concurrent access of multiple memory cells in a cross-point memory array is disclosed. In one aspect, a forced current approach is used in which, while a select voltage is applied to a selected bit line, an access current is driven separately through each selected word l...