ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,424, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"UECC block mapping update to a bad block" was invented by Nava Singer (Petach tikwa, Israel) and Adi Dachlika Koplovich (Yokneam Illit, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Jumboblocks (JBs) having an uncorrectable error correction code (UECC) error are linked to a bad block in a storage address table (SAT) in order to optimize read and write operations. Bad blocks are designated as a bad block during a manufacturing process or associated with a write uncorrectable error. When a JB is identified as having the UECC error, the controller updates a cor...