US Patent Issued to Winbond Electronics on July 8 for "Semiconductor device and programming method capable of programming with reduced power consumption" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,667, issued on July 8, was assigned to Winbond Electronics Corp. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and programming method capable of programming with reduced power consumption" was invented by Masaru Yano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a semiconductor device and a programming method capable of programming with reduced power consumption. The programming method of the NAND flash memory of the disclosure prepares high-speed programming blocks and copy back block for final data storage, responding to an external input programming command while in an power-saving mode, program 1/2 pages of d...