ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,950, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Silicon Storage Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Adaptive bias decoder for non-volatile memory system" was invented by Hieu Van Tran (San Jose, Calif.), Thuan Vu (San Jose, Calif.), Stanley Hong (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen Trinh (San Jose, Calif.), Anh Ly (San Jose, Calif.), Nhan Do (Saratoga, Calif.) and Mark Reiten (Alamo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a non-volatile memory system comprises an array of non-volatile memory cells arranged in rows and columns, each non-volatile memory cell comprising a source and a drain; a plurality of bit lines, each of the pluralit...