Patent ID: 9349452
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: G11C,H01L

Claim Text:
1. A non-volatile storage apparatus, comprising: a plurality of groups of connected non-volatile storage elements, each group of the plurality of groups comprises multiple connected data non-volatile storage elements and multiple select gates on a common side of the data non-volatile storage elements, the multiple select gates on the common side comprise a first select gate and a second select gate, the first select gate having a first threshold voltage for a first subset of the groups and a second threshold voltage for a second subset of the groups due to active area implantation for the second subset of groups that causes the second threshold voltage to be lower than the first threshold voltage, the second select gate of each group having a programmable threshold voltage; a plurality of bit lines, each of the plurality of bit lines is connected to multiple groups of the plurality of groups of connected non-volatile storage elements; and a plurality of word lines, each of the word lines is connected to all of the groups of the plurality of groups of connected non-volatile storage elements.