US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Non-volatile memory with multiple data resolutions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,131, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Non-volatile memory with multiple data resolutions" was invented by Abhijith Prakash (Milpitas, Calif.), Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, Calif.) and Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple non-volatile memory dies are tested to identify word lines that have a first reliability and word lines that have a second reliability. Word lines that have the first reliability are designated to store data at a first number of bits per memory cell. Word lines that have the second reliability are designated to store data at a second number ...