Aplus Flash Technology Assigned Patent

Aplus Flash Technology, Inc. (web site empty), Fremont, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,063,849) developed by Lee, Peter Wung, Saratoga, CA, and Hsu, Fu-Chang, San Jose, CA, for a “different types of memory integrated in one chip by using a novel protocol.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A semiconductor chip contains four different memory types, EEPROM, NAND Flash, NOR Flash and SRAM, and a plurality of major serial/parallel interfaces such as I.sup.2C, SPI, SDI and SQI in one memory chip. The memory chip features write-while-write and read-while-write operations as well as read-while-transfer and write-while-transfer operations. The memory chip provides for eight pins of which two are for power and up to four pins have no connection for specific interfaces and uses a novel unified nonvolatile memory design that allow the integration together of the aforementioned memory types integrated together into the same semiconductor memory chip.“

The patent application was filed on September 19, 2011 (13/200,141).