US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Slow programming on weak word lines of a memory device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,033, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Slow programming on weak word lines of a memory device" was invented by Scott Kayser (San Jose, Calif.), Yongke Sun (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Lanlan Gu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slow programming audit is performed on one or more memory blocks and/or associated word lines of one or more memory dies. The slow programming audit is used to determine whether identified or known weak word lines of one or more memory dies are causing performance issues. If it is determined that the weak word lines are causing data read, data writ...