US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Single-level cell pump skip program operation preliminary period timing optimization for non-volatile memory" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,876, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Single-level cell pump skip program operation preliminary period timing optimization for non-volatile memory" was invented by Chin-Yi Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Muhammad Masuduzzaman (Chandler, Ariz.) and Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory apparatus and method of operation are provided. The apparatus includes memory cells connected to word lines and disposed in strings and configured to retain a threshold voltage corresponding to one of a plurality of data states. A control means is coupled to the word lines and the...