US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Statistics based non-volatile memory health mitigation" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,960, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Statistics based non-volatile memory health mitigation" was invented by Shabtay Yudkovich (Nes Ziona, Israel), David Avraham (Even-Yehuda, Israel) and Mahim Raj Gupta (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed herein for memory health monitoring and mitigation based on decoding statistics. Decoding a frame results in a decoding metric (syndrome weight, fail bit count) for that frame. The system tracks a statistic for different sets of frames. The statistic for a set is based on the decoding metrics for that set. The fr...