Silicon Storage Technology Assigned Patent

Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,741,265) developed by Tran, Hieu Van, Ly, Anh, and Vu, Thuan, San Jose, CA, for “flash memory cell and associated decoders.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”The present invention relates to a flash memory cell with only four terminals and decoder circuitry for operating an array of such flash memory cells. The invention allows for fewer terminals for each flash memory cell compared to the prior art, which results in a simplification of the decoder circuitry and overall die space required per flash memory cells. The invention also provides for the use of high voltages on one or more of the four terminals to allow for read, erase, and programming operations despite the lower number of terminals compared to prior art flash memory cells.”

The patent application was filed on March 16, 2018 (15/924,100).