ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,453, issued on June 3, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"NAND IO bandwidth increase" was invented by Tianyu Tang (Milpitas, Calif.), Venkatesh Prasad Ramachandra (San Jose, Calif.) and Siddhesh Darne (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides circuits and methods for increasing NAND input/output (I/O) bandwidth during read/write operations. The method includes transmitting a clock signal between a controller I/O circuit and a memory I/O circuit along a read enable bus, transmitting 8 bits of data along an I/O bus, and transmitting 2 bits of data along a data strobe signal (DQS...