US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 18 for "Read schemes with adjustment for neighboring word line sanitization" (Alabama, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,218, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Read schemes with adjustment for neighboring word line sanitization" was invented by Md Raquibuzzaman (Huntsville, Ala.), Sujjatul Islam (San Jose, Calif.) and Ravi J. Kumar (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a control circuit configured connect to non-volatile memory cells. The control circuit is configured to receive a read command directed to data stored in non-volatile memory cells of a first word line and determine that a second word line adjacent to the first word line is sanitized. The control circui...