ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,680, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"High performance verify techniques in a memory device" was invented by Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wei Cao (Fremont, Calif.) and Deepanshu Dutta (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The memory device includes at least one memory block with a plurality of memory cells arranged in a plurality of word lines. The memory device includes control circuitry that is configured to program the memory cells of the at least one memory block in a plurality of program loops. The control circuitry is further configured to receive a command to write ...