ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,483, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Memory die management" was invented by Abhijith Prakash (Milpitas, Calif.) and Xiang Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory die management based on biasing voltages. Some memory dies are formed of memory holes having a semi-circular shape. This semi-circular shape results in a decrease in biasing voltage compared to memory holes having a circular shape. Systems and methods described herein organize memory dies into memory die groups according to their biasing voltages. During operation, data is relocated between the memory ...