US Patent Issued to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 12 for "Die location based logical block formation and handling" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,020, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Die location based logical block formation and handling" was invented by Ramanathan Muthiah (Karnataka, India), Ankur Agrawal (Uttar Pradesh, India) and Muralitharan Jayaraman (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of a storage device are provided for efficient handling of logical metablock formation based on a heat distribution within the storage device. The storage device includes a plurality of memory dies each including a physical block, and a controller which forms a logical metablock from the physical blocks based on a locat...