ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,979, issued on April 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"NAND data placement schema" was invented by Carminantonio Manganelli (Benevento, Italy), Paolo Papa (Naples, Italy), Massimo Iaculo (San Marco Evangelista, Italy), Giuseppe D'Eliseo (Caserta, Italy) and Alberto Sassara (Naples, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples are improvements to data placement architectures in NAND that provide additional data protection through an improved NAND data placement schema that allows for recovery from certain failure scenarios. The present disclosure stripes data diagonally across page lines and...