US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on June 17 for "Apparatus and method for detecting neighbor plane erase failures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,160, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for detecting neighbor plane erase failures" was invented by Parth Amin (Livermore, Calif.), Anubhav Khandelwal (San Jose, Calif.) and Deepanshu Dutta (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided that includes a control circuit coupled to a plurality of non-volatile memory cells disposed in a plurality of planes. The control circuit is configured to concurrently erase a block of memory cells in each of the plurality of planes, determine that the concurrent erase failed, disconnect a first one of the ...