US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Read power savings by temporarily disabling bitline voltage" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,185, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Read power savings by temporarily disabling bitline voltage" was invented by Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Eric Fu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Albert Chen (Milpitas, Calif.) and Jonathan Huynh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a set of memory cells and a control circuit coupled to the set of memory cells. The control circuit is configured to transition a wordline voltage of a wordline associated with a target memory cell of the set of memory cells from a first wordline voltage level to a second wordline voltage le...