US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Data storage device and method for storing selected data in relatively-lower data retention pages of a quad-level cell memory" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,878, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for storing selected data in relatively-lower data retention pages of a quad-level cell memory" was invented by Meer Afroz Mohammed (Bengaluru, India), Pawan Negi (Bengaluru, India) and Bhavadip Solanki (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Different pages of a quad-level cell (QLC) memory can have different data retention characteristics. A controller of a data storage device can store selected data in relatively-lower data retention pages of the QLC block. For example, data for an internal data storage devi...