Inventor · Boise, ID, US

Andrei Mihnea

75Patents
18h-index
30Co-inventors
80Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 22, 1996 → Aug 11, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5793079A Single transistor non-volatile electrically alterable semiconductor memory device Physics 81 Expired
US6426898B1 Method of reducing trapped holes induced by erase operations in the tunnel oxide of flash memory cells Physics 59 Expired
US6272047A Flash memory cell Physics 56 Expired
US8389971B2 Memory cells having storage elements that share material layers with steering elements and methods of forming the same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Active
US7212435B2 Minimizing adjacent wordline disturb in a memory device Physics 38 Expired
US6384447B2 Flash memory cell for high efficiency programming Physics 36 Expired
US8395942B2 Junctionless TFT NAND flash memory Electricity 36 Active
US8274130B2 Punch-through diode steering element Physics 35 Active
US8520425B2 Resistive random access memory with low current operation Physics 32 Active
US6684173B2 System and method of testing non-volatile memory cells Physics 27 Expired
US6493280B2 Method of reducing trapped holes induced by erase operations in the tunnel oxide of flash memory cells Physics 26 Expired
US6798699B2 Flash memory device and method of erasing Physics 25 Expired
US6449189B2 Flash memory cell for high efficiency programming Physics 24 Expired
US6445619B1 Flash memory cell for high efficiency programming Physics 20 Expired
US9099202B2 3D stacked non-volatile storage programming to conductive state Electricity 19 Active
US6798694B2 Method for reducing drain disturb in programming Physics 19 Expired
US6795348B2 Method and apparatus for erasing flash memory Electricity 19 Expired
US7099220B2 Methods for erasing flash memory Electricity 18 Expired
US6563741B2 Flash memory device and method of erasing Physics 16 Expired
US7272039B2 Minimizing adjacent wordline disturb in a memory device Physics 16 Expired
US7068543B2 Flash memory Electricity 15 Expired
US7499325B2 Flash memory device with improved erase operation Physics 11 Active
US7257024B2 Minimizing adjacent wordline disturb in a memory device Physics 10 Expired
US6873550B2 Method for programming and erasing an NROM cell Physics 10 Expired
US7924623B2 Method for memory cell erasure with a programming monitor of reference cells Physics 9 Active

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