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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2005
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2002
Applicants:
Zeev Cohen, Safed, IL;
Ran Dvir, Beit Yehoshua, IL;
Eduardo Maayan, Kfar Saba, IL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Saifun Semiconductors Ltd., Netanya, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F012/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for operating a memory device, the method comprising marking a portion of a memory device associated with a group of bits comprising at least one bit upon which an operation is to be performed, and operating on the group of bits and skipping operating on at least one unmarked portion of the memory device in an operation cycle of the memory device. A random access memory (RAM) device is also disclosed comprising a plurality of addresses for storing therein data, and at least one address pointer for at least one of the addresses in the RAM device.