ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,201, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Hybrid precharge select scheme to save program ICC" was invented by Wei Zhao (Fremont, Calif.) and Henry Chin (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device comprises: a non-volatile memory including control circuitry and an array of memory cells formed using a set of word lines and a set of bit lines. A controller, coupled to the non-volatile memory, configured to: during a program loop for programming a set of states, select a first bitline biasing mode that dictates a scheme for biasing a first set of bitlines and apply the fi...