US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 15 for "Erase type detection mechanism" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,677, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Erase type detection mechanism" was invented by YunKyu Lee (SeongNam, South Korea), SangYun Jung (YongIn, South Korea), Minyoung Kim (Suwon, South Korea), SeungBeom Seo (Seoul, South Korea) and MinWoo Lee (Hwasung, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of a storage device are provided for handling detection and operations associated with an erase block type of the block. The storage device includes one or more non-volatile memories each including a block, and one or more controllers operable to cause the storage device to perform erase...