ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,852, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Partial die blocks" was invented by Alan D. Bennett (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rather than having unused die blocks, partial die blocks can contribute to a super block. In so doing, as much of the available physical capacity of the data storage device may be achieved. The result could be an increase in over provisioning (OP) and good capacity for the data storage device or an increase in die yield. An increase in good capacity through the use of previously unuse...