US Patent Issued to Apple on June 17 for "Identifying unusable memory blocks based on zeros-ones imbalance in memory readouts" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,176, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Identifying unusable memory blocks based on zeros-ones imbalance in memory readouts" was invented by Assaf Shappir (Ganey Tikva, Israel), Ruby Mizrahi (Tel Mond, Israel), Nir Tishbi (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Itamar Atiya (Kiryat Tivon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage apparatus includes an interface and storage circuitry. The interface is configured to communicate with a plurality of memory cells organized in multiple memory blocks. The storage circuitry is configured to produce a given readout by reading data from a group of the memory cells in a g...