Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Sameer Haddad

119Patents
25h-index
103Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 17, 1986 → Feb 5, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5077691A Flash EEPROM array with negative gate voltage erase operation Physics 246 Expired
US5712815A Multiple bits per-cell flash EEPROM capable of concurrently programming and verifying memory cells and reference cells Physics 222 Expired
US5335198A Flash EEPROM array with high endurance Physics 157 Expired
US6269023A Method of programming a non-volatile memory cell using a current limiter Physics 139 Expired
US5491657A Method for bulk (or byte) charging and discharging an array of flash EEPROM memory cells Physics 101 Expired
US5617357A Flash EEPROM memory with improved discharge speed using substrate bias and method therefor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 79 Expired
US4774197A Method of improving silicon dioxide Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 68 Expired
US6252803A Automatic program disturb with intelligent soft programming for flash cells Physics 66 Expired
US6122198A Bit by bit APDE verify for flash memory applications Physics 45 Expired
US6001713A Methods for forming nitrogen-rich regions in a floating gate and interpoly dielectric layer in a non-volatile semiconductor memory device Electricity 42 Expired
US6240016A Method to reduce read gate disturb for flash EEPROM application Physics 40 Expired
US6456531B1 Method of drain avalanche programming of a non-volatile memory cell Physics 40 Expired
US6172909A Ramped gate technique for soft programming to tighten the Vt distribution Physics 38 Expired
US5457336A Non-volatile memory structure including protection and structure for maintaining threshold stability Electricity 38 Expired
US5793677A Using floating gate devices as select gate devices for NAND flash memory and its bias scheme Physics 38 Expired
US6735114B1 Method of improving dynamic reference tracking for flash memory unit Physics 37 Expired
US6438037B1 Threshold voltage compacting for non-volatile semiconductor memory designs Physics 36 Expired
US7289351B1 Method of programming a resistive memory device Physics 33 Expired
US6275415A Multiple byte channel hot electron programming using ramped gate and source bias voltage Physics 32 Expired
US6583009B1 Innovative narrow gate formation for floating gate flash technology Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Expired
US5790456A Multiple bits-per-cell flash EEPROM memory cells with wide program and erase V.sub.t window Physics 29 Expired
US5590076A Channel hot-carrier page write Physics 28 Expired
US6046932A Circuit implementation to quench bit line leakage current in programming and over-erase correction modes in flash EEPROM Physics 26 Expired
US5912489A Dual source side polysilicon select gate structure utilizing single tunnel oxide for NAND array flash memory Physics 26 Expired
US5856946A Memory cell programming with controlled current injection Physics 26 Expired

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