US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Early program termination with adaptive temperature compensation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,046, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Early program termination with adaptive temperature compensation" was invented by Sarath Puthenthermadam (San Jose, Calif.), Yihang Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided that includes a control circuit coupled to a plurality of non-volatile memory cells. The control circuit is configured to perform a program-verify iteration on a first set of the non-volatile memory cells and a second set of the non-volatile memory cells in a plurality of program loops, determine that at...