US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 18 for "Three-bit-per-cell programming using a four-bit-per-cell programming algorithm" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,931, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Three-bit-per-cell programming using a four-bit-per-cell programming algorithm" was invented by Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Deepanshu Dutta (Fremont, Calif.), Jiacen Guo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Takayuki Inoue (Sagamihara, Japan) and Hua-Ling Hsu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of memory cells, logic circuits coupled to the memory cells and configured to store 4-bit data in each of the memory cells, and a control circuit coupled to the memory cells and the logic circuits. The co...