ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,435, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Supporting mixed read in non-volatile memory controller" was invented by Christoffer Holm Kjolbaek (Soeborg, Denmark), Rasmus Madsen (Skovlunde, Denmark), Lunkai Zhang (Portland, Ore.), Raj Ramanujan (Federal Way, Wash.) and Martin Lueker-Boden (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When a memory system supports different read modes with different read latencies, such as reference read and self-referenced read, read data conflicts can occur for data returned from the memory cells in response to the issued read commands. To support such mixed...