ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,317, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Managing voltage threshold shifts" was invented by Hari Kannan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nenad Miladinovic (Campbell, Calif.), Eric Michael Verwillow (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Davis Yeung (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system operates solid-state storage memory. The system determines that a portion of the solid-state storage memory is of a type that has a failure mode of threshold voltage shift over time from successive reads at time intervals. The system alters or turns off a background process that performs such successive reads to c...