US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 22 for "Simultaneous lower tail verify with upper tail verify" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,940, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Simultaneous lower tail verify with upper tail verify" was invented by Yingying Zhu (Shanghai), Chao Xu (Shanghai), Ming Wang (Shanghai) and Liang Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed herein for simultaneous lower tail program verify with upper tail verify. The memory system may apply a reference voltage to a word line following applying a program voltage to the word line. The memory system senses the first set of memory cells targeted for a first data state and the second set of memory cells targeted for a second dat...