US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Read for memory cell with threshold switching selector" (Idaho, Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,099, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Read for memory cell with threshold switching selector" was invented by Ward Parkinson (Boise, Idaho), Michael Grobis (Campbell, Calif.), James O'Toole (Boise, Idaho), Thomas Trent (Tucson, Ariz.) and Michael Nicolas Albert Tran (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology for reading memory cells having threshold switching selectors. A sense amplifier may have a set of capacitors that may be used to exchange charge with a sense node connected to the selected word line. A capacitor may be used to pull excess charge from the sense nod...