ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,749, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Firmware scheme for 3 tier memories" was invented by Manoj M. Shenoy (Bangalore, India), Lakshmi Sowjanya Sunkavelli (Bangalore, India), Gopu S (Bengaluru, India) and Binoy Jose Panakkal (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three tier memory has an upper sub block, a lower sub block, and a middle sub block. In the present disclosure, rather than precharging the upper and lower sub blocks, use is made of the middle sub block using a firmware (FW) scheme. Upon receiving a write request from a host, the FW will route the data to the middle...