US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 29 for "Smart early program termination algorithm for neighbor plane disturb countermeasure" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,402, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Smart early program termination algorithm for neighbor plane disturb countermeasure" was invented by Dandan Yi (Shangai, China), Xuan Tian (Shanghai), Liang Li (Shanghai) and Vincent Yin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory apparatus and method of operation are provided. The apparatus includes memory cells each connected to word lines and disposed in memory holes. The memory holes are arranged in rows comprising strings which are grouped into blocks comprising a first plane and a second plane. A control means is configured to program m...