US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Nov. 11 for "VPASS auto layer compensation in a memory device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,562, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"VPASS auto layer compensation in a memory device" was invented by Peng Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Jia Li (San Francisco) and Yihang Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The memory device includes a memory block with a plurality of memory cells that are arranged in a plurality of word lines. The word lines are grouped in a plurality of layers. The memory device also includes circuitry that is configured to program the memory cells of a selected word line of the plurality of word lines. The circuitry is configured during programming ...