ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,877, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Program pulse duration increase for NAND program failure" was invented by Abu Naser Zainuddin (Milpitas, Calif.), Parth Amin (Livermore, Calif.), Xiaochen Zhu (Milpitas, Calif.), Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, Calif.), Anubhav Khandelwal (San Jose, Calif.) and Vishwanath Basavaegowda Shanthakumar (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A duration of a program pulse used to program non-volatile memory cells such as NAND may be increased responsive to a programming failure using a shorter duration program pulse. The duration of at least one program pul...