US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Memory device with multiple plane functionalities" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,683, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Memory device with multiple plane functionalities" was invented by Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The memory device includes a die with a plurality of memory blocks which are physically arranged in six planes. The die is configured to allow parallel operations in memory blocks of any combination of all six plane. The memory device also includes circuitry that is configured to operate the die in at least two different operating modes depending on a type of memory product that the die is connected with. The at least two ...