US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Data storage device and method for handling lifetime read disturb" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,751, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for handling lifetime read disturb" was invented by Mahim Gupta (San Jose, Calif.), Piyush A. Dhotre (San Jose, Calif.), Daivik Bychapur Manjunatha (Milpitas, Calif.) and Leeladhar Agarwal (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A block of memory in a data storage device can experience a read disturb based on how many times the block of memory was read, as well as on the program-erase count of the block. Non-data wordline maintenance triggered by program-erase count can address the read disturb in some situation...