ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,809, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Open block read ICC reduction" was invented by Abu Naser Zainuddin (Milpitas, Calif.), Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, Calif.) and Deepanshu Dutta (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology for a storage system that reduces the Icc during open block reads. A lower than nominal voltage may be applied to the bit lines during open block reads, which reduces Icc. A nominal bit line voltage may be used during closed block reads. The lower than nominal bit line voltage may be combined with using a lower than nominal read pass voltage (Vread) to u...