If E.Digital does modify the claims as described by the examiner, that will limit what devices are considered infringers to the patent.....

A charge pump is a device used to create higher voltages out of lower voltages. They are used when a power source such as a battery do not have a high enough voltage to supply the power requirements for operation. With respect to flash, many many years ago, it required 12V for programming the cells, thus a charge pump could be used to take a battery voltage of 3V to 12V. In the last 10 years or so, flash no longer requires 12V for programming, and can be powered directly by 3V.

A MOSFET was typically used in a flash application to prevent inadvertant writes to the flash during operational edge conditions, either at power up or power down of a system. In the early days of flash there was no protection from this. As flash technology matured, the data protection was built-in to flash, thus no longer requiring power-up and down control to prevent errors. MOSFETs are quite inefficient, and are not used any longer in portable devices.

So if E.Digital re-writes the claims to include charge pumps, MOSFETs, etc. And if with the new claims , only future devices can be considered infringers, where does that leave us?

Am I missing something?