US Patent Issued to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES on March 25 for "Sense amplifier architecture providing reduced program verification time" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,921, issued on March 25, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Addison, Texas).

"Sense amplifier architecture providing reduced program verification time" was invented by Hiroki Yabe (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for sensing a data state of a memory cell. In an example implementation, systems and methods disclosed herein perform a method that includes connecting a first sensing node and a second sensing node to a bitline of a sensing amplifier to simultaneously discharge first and second capacitors connected to the first and second sensing nodes, respectively, through the memory...