Patent ID: 11972805
Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. The non-volatile storage apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:
additional non-volatile memory cells, the additional non-volatile memory cells and the group of non-volatile memory cells together comprise a block of non-volatile memory cells, the block of non-volatile memory cells is divided into multiple sub-blocks, the group of non-volatile memory cells is one sub-block of the multiple sub-blocks, the control circuit is configured to erase the group of non-volatile memory cells as part of erasing of the block of non-volatile memory cells, the control circuit is configured to identify the first set of the bit lines and apply programming for the one sub-block of the multiple sub-blocks separate from other sub-blocks.