Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

SanDisk Technologies Inc.

107 pending office actions • 32 art units • 83 examiners • 0 of 107 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 511 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

107
Total Pending OAs
71
Non-Final OAs
34
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 30 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

14
Overdue
1
Due this week
9
Due this month
4
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 30 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (14)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (9)Due ≤ 60 days (4)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

46
Hard (43%)
54
Medium (50%)
7
Easy (7%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other1 (1%)
§103 only40 (37%)
§102 only14 (13%)
§112 only6 (6%)
Double-patenting only1 (1%)
Multi-statute (no §101)45 (42%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
24
Information Tech
22% of docket
1
Communications
1% of docket
73
Semiconductors
68% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
9
Business / Other
8% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

1,070 h
Manual time on pending OAs
214 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
374 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
9.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WELLS, JAMES STEVEN 3 90.9% -3.4%
COON, BRADLEY SCOTT 3 93.2% +19.4%
AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE 3 94.4% -2.6%
KING, DANIEL JOHN 3 98.4% +2.3%
SALERNO, SARAH KATE 3 73.4% +14.8%
ELAHIAN, DANIEL 2 74.4% +52.4%
BUI, THA-O H 2 88.2% +4.2%
CHOWDHURY, SUBIR KUMAR 2 79.4% +10.9%
LEBOEUF, JEROME LARRY 2 85.2% +7.2%
KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES 2 79.0% +23.7%

Quick Wins (7)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18603582 LATERAL SUB-BLOCK MODE IN A MEMORY DEVICE COON, BRADLEY SCOTT 18d overdue
18355339 ADAPTIVE ERASE VOLTAGES FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY KING, DANIEL JOHN 13d
18678647 DISCHARGE-FREE READ OPERATIONS FOR HIGH BANDWIDTH NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES KING, DANIEL JOHN 54d
19039948 Data Storage Device and Method for Bit-Error-Rate Balancing in Fractional-Bit-Per-Cell Memory WELLS, JAMES STEVEN
18982579 DATA RETENTION READ METHOD BUI, THA-O H
18980921 POST-ERASE READ OF DUMMY WORD LINE TO SUSTAIN THE SUB-BLOCK MODE DURING UNSELECTED SUB-BLOCK DISTURB BUI, THA-O H
18392904 SMART REDUCED-VERIFY ALGORITHM FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY APPARATUSES AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE

Hard Cases (46)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18389980 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SELECTOR DEVICE THRESHOLD VOLTAGE DRIFT KING, DOUGLAS 141d overdue
18357379 SOLDER BARRIER CONTACT FOR AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT SEVEN, EVREN 29d overdue
18748836 PROGRAMMING WITHOUT PRE-CHARGE IN NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES BRASWELL, DONALD H.B. 19d overdue
18545601 HYBRID THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIAL WITH EMBEDDED METAL LAYER ENAD, CHRISTINE A 18d overdue
18222776 SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING PCB EDGE HEAT DISSIPATION ZARNEKE, DAVID A 8d overdue
18452500 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ERASING FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WELLS, JAMES STEVEN 1d overdue
18739566 ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING A DOUBLE-WALLED HOUSING THAT ACTS AS A THERMAL BARRIER KRIM, PETER 14d
18790599 MAGNETORESISTIVE MEMORY DEVICES INCLUDING DUAL FREE LAYERS AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND OPERATING THE SAME KING, DANIEL JOHN 15d

Interview Candidates (12)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18603582 LATERAL SUB-BLOCK MODE IN A MEMORY DEVICE COON, BRADLEY SCOTT 18d overdue
18734019 SLC SUB-BLOCK MODE FOR NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES COON, BRADLEY SCOTT 22d
18365394 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING CROSS BIT LINE PITCH IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUITS SALERNO, SARAH KATE 27d
18488421 IMPROVED HOST DRAM AND PCIE BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION FOR DRAM-LESS DEVICES KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES 56d
18770399 Controller Memory Buffer (CMB) Doorbell Synchronization CHOWDHURY, SUBIR KUMAR 78d
19066145 Unlocking a Data Storage Device Using a Web Application ELAHIAN, DANIEL
18982656 EDGE WORD LINE BIAS ENGINEERING FOR THRESHOLD VOLTAGE MARGIN IMPROVEMENT OF SUB-BLOCK MODE COON, BRADLEY SCOTT
18924819 Communication with a Data Storage Device with a Web Application ELAHIAN, DANIEL

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2824 13
2827 9
2898 7
2825 6
2132 5
2817 5
2892 5
2897 4
2818 4
2133 3

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19241123 Using Excess CMB Allocated to a Host for Storage Controller Utilization WONG, NANCI N §103Other Non-Final OA Pending Jun 17, 2025
19089969 Dynamic And Shared CMB And HMB Allocation LI, ZHUO H 2133 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 25, 2025
19066145 Unlocking a Data Storage Device Using a Web Application ELAHIAN, DANIEL 2407 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2025
19039948 Data Storage Device and Method for Bit-Error-Rate Balancing in Fractional-Bit-Per-Cell Memory WELLS, JAMES STEVEN 2825 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 29, 2025
19040410 Hidden L0p Exit Latency In Read Workload FATIMA, AYMAN 2176 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 29, 2025
19033889 PROTECTING DATA IN AN UNLOCKED STORAGE DEVICE CHAPPELL, DANIEL C 2135 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 22, 2025
18982656 EDGE WORD LINE BIAS ENGINEERING FOR THRESHOLD VOLTAGE MARGIN IMPROVEMENT OF SUB-BLOCK MODE COON, BRADLEY SCOTT 2827 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 16, 2024
18982579 DATA RETENTION READ METHOD BUI, THA-O H 2825 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 16, 2024
18980921 POST-ERASE READ OF DUMMY WORD LINE TO SUSTAIN THE SUB-BLOCK MODE DURING UNSELECTED SUB-BLOCK DISTURB BUI, THA-O H 2825 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 13, 2024
18978534 PROGRAM-VERIFY TECHNIQUES IN A MEMORY DEVICE LUU, PHO M 2824 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 12, 2024
18978514 MULTI-PASS PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES FOR MEMORY DEVICES BASHAR, MOHAMMED A 2824 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 12, 2024
18967890 ATS Endpoint Optimization For Storage Workloads KHAN, MASUD K 2132 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 04, 2024
18933321 Efficient Address Translation Cache Invalidation in Data Storage Devices LI, SIDNEY 2137 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2024
18924819 Communication with a Data Storage Device with a Web Application ELAHIAN, DANIEL 2407 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 23, 2024
18916844 NONVOLATILE MEMORY WITH MULTI-CELL WEIGHT STRUCTURE HO, HOAI V 2827 §102 Final Rejection Pending Oct 16, 2024
18914582 TRANSIENT STATE MANAGEMENT OF AN INPUT/OUTPUT IMPACTED STORAGE DEVICE ZAMAN, FAISAL M 2175 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 14, 2024
18902041 ELECTRONIC DEVICE ENCLOSURE HAVING A PLURALITY OF SURFACE FEATURES MANDEVILLE, JASON M 2623 §102 Final Rejection Pending Sep 30, 2024
18897573 WORD LINE ZONE ERASE TECHNIQUES FOR MEMORY DEVICES TRAN, MICHAEL THANH 2827 §102§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 26, 2024
18894152 PCIe LANE ADAPTER FOR ENABLING FLEXIBLE SWITCHING OF SPEED AND CAPACITY CONFIGURATIONS OF STORAGE DRIVES HUYNH, KIM T 2184 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 24, 2024
18779891 Adaptive Spare Block Cycling With Multi-Die Blocks PINGA, JASON MICHAEL 2137 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 22, 2024
18776797 Data Integrity Protection Of SSDs Utilizing Streams THAMMAVONG, PRASITH 2137 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 18, 2024
18776740 Zoned Namespaces in Solid-Stage Drives GRULLON, FRANCISCO A 2132 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 18, 2024
18770407 Dynamic Integrity and Datat Encryption (IDE) Aggregation Size MUNGUIA, DUILIO 2497 §103 Final Rejection 43d overdue Pending Jul 11, 2024
18770399 Controller Memory Buffer (CMB) Doorbell Synchronization CHOWDHURY, SUBIR KUMAR 2132 §103 Non-Final OA 78d Pending Jul 11, 2024
18763370 NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH USAGE DEPENDENT SUSPEND RESUME AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE 2824 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 03, 2024
18757932 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR REFERENCE READ TECHNIQUES FOR THRESHOLD SELECTOR DEVICE MEMORY NGUYEN, VAN THU T 2824 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 28, 2024
18756373 PROGRESSIVE SEASONING FOR THRESHOLD SWITCHING SELECTORS LEBOEUF, JEROME LARRY 2824 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 27, 2024
18756374 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING PAIRED MEMORY DEVICES GREWAL, HEIM KIRIN 2812 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 27, 2024
18754628 SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE HAVING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTED ENCLOSURE SMITH, SAMUEL JONATHAN 2817 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 26, 2024
18749383 CAPACITOR FOR SNAPBACK CURRENT MITIGATION LEBOEUF, JEROME LARRY 2824 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 20, 2024
18748836 PROGRAMMING WITHOUT PRE-CHARGE IN NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES BRASWELL, DONALD H.B. 2825 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Jun 20, 2024
18739566 ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING A DOUBLE-WALLED HOUSING THAT ACTS AS A THERMAL BARRIER KRIM, PETER 2841 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jun 11, 2024
18738634 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING EMBEDDED SEMICONDUCTOR DIES SABUR, ALIA §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jun 10, 2024
18734019 SLC SUB-BLOCK MODE FOR NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES COON, BRADLEY SCOTT 2827 §102§103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Jun 05, 2024
18678647 DISCHARGE-FREE READ OPERATIONS FOR HIGH BANDWIDTH NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES KING, DANIEL JOHN 2827 §112 Non-Final OA 54d Pending May 30, 2024
18660521 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR SUB-BLOCK READ REFRESH FOR NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES 2139 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending May 10, 2024
18647612 PERFORMANCE SAVING DURING BLOCK JUMPING SMET, UYEN TRAN 2824 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Apr 26, 2024
18613246 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USING HOLE CURRENT FOR ERASE VERIFY WELLS, JAMES STEVEN 2825 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Mar 22, 2024
18610700 SYMMETRICAL SEMICONDUCTOR DIES FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE HENRY, CALEB E §102 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 20, 2024
18608695 PROCESSING CORE INCLUDING INTEGRATED HIGH CAPACITY HIGH BANDWIDTH STORAGE MEMORY HIDALGO, FERNANDO N §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 18, 2024
18606010 SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE HAVING AN INTEGRATED PASSIVE DEVICE THAT ACTS AS A SPACER PHAM, HOAI V 2892 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 15, 2024
18603582 LATERAL SUB-BLOCK MODE IN A MEMORY DEVICE COON, BRADLEY SCOTT 2827 §103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Mar 13, 2024
18587700 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING NUMBER OF LAYOUT TRACKS FOR SENSE AMPLIFIERS LEE, ALVIN LYNGHI 2813 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 26, 2024
18419588 CAVITY TAPE FOR PACKAGE PROTECTION MENZ, LAURA MARY 2813 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 23, 2024
18413391 TOLERATING DEFECTIVE MEMORY BANKS IN EMERGING MEMORY COMPONENTS BRYAN, JASON B 2114 §101§112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 16, 2024
18392904 SMART REDUCED-VERIFY ALGORITHM FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY APPARATUSES AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE 2824 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 21, 2023
18389980 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING SELECTOR DEVICE THRESHOLD VOLTAGE DRIFT KING, DOUGLAS 2824 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 141d overdue Pending Dec 20, 2023
18545601 HYBRID THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIAL WITH EMBEDDED METAL LAYER ENAD, CHRISTINE A 2811 §102§103 Non-Final OA 18d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2023
18541892 LOGICAL BLOCK FORMATION BASED ON BLOCK ERASE LOOPS OTTO, ALAN 2132 §103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 15, 2023
18528736 DETERMINISTIC BANDWIDTH FOR A DATA STORAGE DEVICE CHOWDHURY, SUBIR KUMAR 2132 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 04, 2023
18510978 ACHIEVING DIFFERENT HIGH VOLTAGES ON INDIVIDUAL BITLINES OF A MEMORY DEVICE REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE 2824 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 16, 2023
18501490 ACCESSING SHARED PARTITIONS ON A STORAGE DRIVE OF A REMOTE DEVICE KRIEGER, JONAH C 2133 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Nov 03, 2023
18493527 SEMICONDUCTOR WAFER THINNED BY CRACK PROPAGATION PARVEZ, AZM A 2892 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 24, 2023
18488421 IMPROVED HOST DRAM AND PCIE BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION FOR DRAM-LESS DEVICES KORTMAN, CURTIS JAMES 2139 §103§112 Non-Final OA 56d Pending Oct 17, 2023
18373403 ENABLING POWER OPTIMIZATION THROUGH DRAM BANK MANAGEMENT IN SOLID STATE DRIVES MENDEL, JULIAN SCOTT 2133 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 27, 2023
18471455 NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH SEQUENTIAL READ SMET, UYEN TRAN 2824 §102§103 Non-Final OA 21d Pending Sep 21, 2023
18461089 CREDIT ALLOCATION FOR ENABLING ACCESS TO HARDWARE RESOURCES OF A COMPUTING DEVICE KAMRAN, MEHRAN 2196 §102§103§112 Final Rejection Pending Sep 05, 2023
18456906 UNSINGULATED SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE KOLB, THADDEUS J 2817 §103 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Aug 28, 2023
18452500 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ERASING FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WELLS, JAMES STEVEN 2825 §103§112 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending Aug 18, 2023
18449452 SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP WITH VARYING THICKNESS PROFILE RAHMAN, MOIN M 2898 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Aug 14, 2023
18231629 ERASE TECHNIQUES USING ANALOG BITSCAN IN A MEMORY DEVICE REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE 2824 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending Aug 08, 2023
18365394 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR INCREASING CROSS BIT LINE PITCH IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUITS SALERNO, SARAH KATE 2814 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Aug 04, 2023
18230270 OPEN BLOCK DETECTION METHOD USING FOR FIRST AND SECOND TIME PERIOD READ TIME VALLEY FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY APPARATUS AGGER, ELIZABETH ROSE 2824 §103§112 Final Rejection 54d Pending Aug 04, 2023
18362140 TESTING PADDLE FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE CHARACTERIZATION RIOS RUSSO, RAUL J 2858 §103 Final Rejection 1d overdue Pending Jul 31, 2023
18361081 SINGLE PACKAGE DATA STORAGE DEVICE TYNES JR., LAWRENCE C 2899 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 28, 2023
18360555 SEMICONDUCTOR DIE STACKING ARCHITECTURE AND CONNECTION METHOD THEREFORE NICELY, JOSEPH C 2813 §103 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Jul 27, 2023
18359645 THERMALLY CONDUCTIVE SPACER SUN, YU-HSI DAVID 2817 §102 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2023
18357379 SOLDER BARRIER CONTACT FOR AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT SEVEN, EVREN 2812 §103§112 Non-Final OA 29d overdue Pending Jul 24, 2023
18355339 ADAPTIVE ERASE VOLTAGES FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY KING, DANIEL JOHN 2827 §112 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Jul 19, 2023
18222776 SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING PCB EDGE HEAT DISSIPATION ZARNEKE, DAVID A 2891 §102§103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2023
18222632 TSV SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING INDUCTIVE COMPENSATION LOOPS YUSHINA, GALINA G 2811 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Jul 17, 2023
18221497 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING VERTICALLY INTERCONNECTED SEMICONDUCTOR DIES WEGNER, AARON MICHAEL 2897 §103 Non-Final OA 34d Pending Jul 13, 2023
17831810 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING SELECT DIES OF KNOWN THICKNESSES MULERO FLORES, ERIC MANUEL 2898 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jun 03, 2022
17726990 PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD WITH EMBEDDED BUMP PADS BURNS, TREMESHA WILLIS 2847 §102 Final Rejection Pending Apr 22, 2022
18794809 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE WITH LATERALLY INTEGRATED ACCESS TRANSISTORS AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME PRABHAKHER, PRITHAM DAVID §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 05, 2024
18790599 MAGNETORESISTIVE MEMORY DEVICES INCLUDING DUAL FREE LAYERS AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND OPERATING THE SAME KING, DANIEL JOHN 2827 §102§112 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 31, 2024
18675721 MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING SELF-ALIGNED DIELECTRIC BASE BELOW WORD LINE CONTACT VIA STRUCTURE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME JANG, BO BIN §102 Non-Final OA Pending May 28, 2024
18658557 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING A P-I-N JUNCTION SOURCE CONTACT STRUCTURE AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME WINTERS, SEAN AYERS 2892 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending May 08, 2024
18644417 Single Sideband Signals Set for Multi-Port Storage Devices HASSAN, AURANGZEB 2184 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 24, 2024
18640785 CIRCUITRY TO CONTROL COMMON CATHODE BI-COLOR LEDS IN STORAGE DEVICES CHEN, PATRICK C 2842 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 19, 2024
18628059 TRANSISTOR CONTACT STRUCTURE WITH UPPER LEVEL INSULATING SPACER AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME JEAN BAPTISTE, WILNER §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 05, 2024
18621735 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF INCLUDING NON-CONFORMAL SELECTIVE DEPOSITION OF SPACERS IN MEMORY OPENINGS OH, JAEHWAN DP Non-Final OA Pending Mar 29, 2024
18615626 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE CONTAINING SELF-ALIGNED VIA STRUCTURES AND ETCH-STOP DIELECTRIC LAYER AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME QUINTO, KEVIN V §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 25, 2024
18602790 MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING NON-INTEGER AVERAGE NUMBER OF MEMORY OPENING FILL STRUCTURES PER COLUMN DIALLO, MAMADOU L 2897 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 12, 2024
18603161 ENHANCING READ PERFORMANCE OF A STORAGE DEVICE IN A MULTI-APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT MACKALL, LARRY T 2139 §103 Non-Final OA 7d Pending Mar 12, 2024
18598782 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING MULTI-TIER TRENCH BRIDGE STRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME MCCALL SHEPARD, SONYA D 2898 §112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 07, 2024
18590048 MULTI-TIER MEMORY ARRAY INCLUDING LATERALLY-STAGGERED STAIRCASES AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME NGUYEN, CUONG B 2818 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 28, 2024
18589181 STAIRLESS THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE WITH WORD LINE CONTACT VIA STRUCTURES LOCATED OVER SUPPORT FEATURES AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME ROBERTSON, NOAH CHRISTOPHER 2812 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2024
18588849 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING A REPLACEMENT ETCH-STOP LINER FOR LAYER CONTACT VIA STRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME TRAN, DZUNG 2893 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2024
18588791 CENTER-CONNECTION BONDED MEMORY ASSEMBLY AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME WALJESKI-MOSES, KATRINA MARIE HESTER 2818 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 27, 2024
18442547 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE WITH BACKSIDE SUPPORT PILLAR STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME SALERNO, SARAH KATE 2814 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 15, 2024
18433073 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING A DIELECTRIC SUPPORT ASSEMBLY WITH A DIELECTRIC CONNECTION PLATE AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF MCCALL SHEPARD, SONYA D 2898 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 05, 2024
18415100 METHOD OF SELECTIVE BOTTOM WIDENING OF HIGH ASPECT RATIO OPENINGS THROUGH A MULTI-LAYER STACK REIDA, MOLLY KAY 2899 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 17, 2024
18413990 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING A SCHOTTKY SOURCE CONTACT STRUCTURE AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME WINTERS, SEAN AYERS 2892 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jan 16, 2024
18500623 TRANSISTOR CIRCUITS INCLUDING FRINGELESS TRANSISTORS AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME JUNGE, BRYAN R. 2897 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA 83d Pending Nov 02, 2023
18500721 TRANSISTOR CIRCUITS INCLUDING FRINGELESS TRANSISTORS AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME JUNGE, BRYAN R. 2897 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 02, 2023
18495491 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING LATERALLY-UNDULATING LATERAL ISOLATION TRENCHES AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME SALERNO, SARAH KATE 2814 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 26, 2023
18463752 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE WITH BACKSIDE WORD LINE CONTACT VIA STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME MCDONALD, JASON ANDREW 2898 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 08, 2023
18362706 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING MEMORY OPENINGS ARRANGED IN NON-EQUILATERAL TRIANGULAR LAYOUT AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF RAHMAN, KHATIB A 2818 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 31, 2023
18359697 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE WITH BACKSIDE WORD LINE CONTACT VIA STRUCTURES AND METHODS OF FORMING THE SAME MCDONALD, JASON ANDREW 2898 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 26, 2023
18357702 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING HETEROJUNCTION SOURCE LAYER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME TRAN, THANH Y 2817 §102 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 24, 2023
18357676 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING INVERTED STAIRCASE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME TRAN, THANH Y 2817 §102§112 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 24, 2023
18355765 BONDED THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE HAVING TEMPORARY ELECTRICAL GROUNDING PATHS IN DUMMY BLOCK AND METHODS OF MAKING THE SAME LOHAKARE, PRATIKSHA JAYANT 2818 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 20, 2023
18222735 PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES IN A MEMORY DEVICE TO REDUCE A HYBRID SLC RATIO HIDALGO, FERNANDO N 2827 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 17, 2023
18350552 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF USING ETCH STOP STRUCTURES LOCATED BETWEEN TIERS SALAZ, SAMMANTHA KATELYN 2892 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 11, 2023
18349578 STAIRLESS THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MAKING THEREOF BY FORMING REPLACEMENT WORD LINES THROUGH MEMORY OPENINGS YUSHINA, GALINA G 2811 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 10, 2023
18348702 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE CONTAINING DISCRETE CHARGE STORAGE ELEMENTS AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME MILLER, ALEXANDER MICHAEL 2898 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jul 07, 2023

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