Silicon Storage Technology Assigned Patent

Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,134,475) developed by Tran, Hieu Van, Ly, Anh, Vu, Thuan, San Jose, CA, and Nguyen, Hung Quoc, Fremont, CA, for “method and apparatus for inhibiting the programming of unselected bitlines in a flash memory system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Various embodiments for inhibiting the programming of memory cells coupled to unselected bit lines while programming a memory cell coupled to a selected bit line in a flash memory array are disclosed. Various embodiments for compensating for leakage current during the programming of memory cells coupled to a selected bit line in a flash memory array also are disclosed.”

The patent application was filed on February 19, 2016 (15/048,707).