US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 22 for "Method to extend the lifespan of a data storage device by repurposing blocks from burst pool" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,138, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Method to extend the lifespan of a data storage device by repurposing blocks from burst pool" was invented by Karan Patel (Bangalore, India), Amit Chopra (Bangalore, India) and Nitin Jain (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device postpones entry into a read-only mode due to faulty blocks that cannot be written to on a memory device. The memory device is divided into blocks. Blocks used for storing host data are placed in a main area pool, blocks used for storing host data and for peak write operations are placed in a burst p...