G11C 2216/20
Suspension of programming or erasing cells in an array in order to
Official title: Suspension of programming or erasing cells in an array in order to read other cells in it
G11C2216/20 (Suspension of programming or erasing cells in an array in order to) appears on 158 US grants and 120 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11C- Granted patents
- 158
- Published applications
- 120
- Assignees
- 55
- Inventors
- 266
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 4 | 0 |
| 1998 | 10 | 0 |
| 1999 | 11 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 8 | 4 |
| 2002 | 8 | 6 |
| 2003 | 3 | 2 |
| 2004 | 3 | 5 |
| 2005 | 3 | 4 |
| 2006 | 10 | 2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 3 |
| 2008 | 3 | 6 |
| 2009 | 3 | 0 |
| 2010 | 3 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2 | 3 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 |
| 2015 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4 |
| 2018 | 8 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 8 | 16 |
| 2022 | 9 | 10 |
| 2023 | 10 | 14 |
| 2024 | 16 | 10 |
| 2025 | 4 | 6 |
| 2026 | 5 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- State dependent suspend-resume-go for performance improvement in a memory device11 Aug 2026US 12,706,149 B2SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Selective management of erase operations in memory devices that enable suspend commands11 Aug 2026US 12,706,156 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- Memory system implementing write abort operation for reduced read latency19 May 2026US 12,632,177 B2Sunrise Memory Corporation
- Solid state drive (SSD) with in-flight erasure iteration suspension5 May 2026US 12,620,448 B2SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp.
- Solid state drive with concurrent read execution and erase execution17 Mar 2026US 12,578,867 B2Microchip Technology Incorporated
- Solid state drive (ssd) with in-flight erasure iteration suspension21 May 2026US 2026/0141965 A1SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp.
- Solid state drive with concurrent read execution and erase execution26 Feb 2026US 2026/0056665 A1Microchip Technology Incorporated
- Resumption of program or erase operations in memory21 Aug 2025US 2025/0266108 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Techniques for suspend operations5 Jun 2025US 2025/0181492 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Suspending memory erase operations to perform higher priority memory commands5 Jun 2025US 2025/0182829 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device242US 6,791,882 B2Renesas Technology Corp. · 2004
- Register interface for flash EEPROM memory arrays126US 5,937,423 AIntel Corporation · 1999
- Flash memory wordline decoder with overerase repair122US 5,822,252 AAplus Integrated Circuits, Inc. · 1998
- Electrically erasable and programmable non-volatile memory (EEPROM), wherein write pulses can be interrupted by subsequently received read requests113US 5,287,469 ANEC Corporation · 1994
- Method and apparatus for suspending the writing of a nonvolatile semiconductor memory with program suspend command108US 5,937,424 AIntel Corporation · 1999