ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,816, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Data storage device and method for data routing for wear levelling in multi-meta-die data storage devices" was invented by Bishwajit Dutta (Bangalore, India) and Sharath Shivakumar (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-meta-die data storage device disclosed herein routes host writes in such a way to prevent the need for inter-meta-die active wear leveling. In making the meta-die selection, a controller of the data storage device can consider both the average number of program-erase cycles (PEC) of the meta-die, as well as a param...