US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Data storage device and method for classifying a set of continuous wordlines as an outlier band in an open block" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,074, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for classifying a set of continuous wordlines as an outlier band in an open block" was invented by Pradeep Seetaram Hegde (Uttar Kannada, India), Darshan Pagariya (Gondia, India), Akhilesh Yadav (Bangalore, India), Shivam Mishra (Bangalore, India), Abhinandan Venugopal (Mysore, India) and Yuvaraj Kumar C.D. (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device groups a set of continuous wordlines crossing a data retention threshold together as a band. The set of continuous wordlines are in an open blo...