ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,017, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung, Taiwan).
"Method for erasing flash memory" was invented by Lung-Chi Cheng (Taichung, Taiwan), Ying-Shan Kuo (Taichung, Taiwan), Jun-Yao Huang (Taichung, Taiwan), Ju-Chieh Cheng (Taichung, Taiwan) and Yu-Cheng Chuang (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A block erase method for a flash memory is provided. The block erase method is to perform block erase on a block with a predetermined block size. The block erase method includes: performing an erase verification on bytes byte-by-byte in the block when performing the block erase; checking an erase s...