US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 8 for "Non-volatile memory with loop dependant ramp-up rate" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,664, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Non-volatile memory with loop dependant ramp-up rate" was invented by Abu Naser Zainuddin (Milpitas, Calif.), Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, Calif.) and Toru Miwa (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-volatile memory system is configured to program non-volatile memory cells by applying doses of programming to the memory cells and performing a program-verify operation following each dose of programming. Each dose of programming and the corresponding program-verify operation following the dose of programming is referred to as a program loop. The...