US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 8 for "Pre-emptive operations for faster XOR recovery and relocation" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,278, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Pre-emptive operations for faster XOR recovery and relocation" was invented by Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel), Michael Ionin (Rehovot, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Karin Inbar (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During data storage device operation, data of multiple blocks of a non-volatile memory device, logically grouped as a jumboblock, may be protected by an exclusive or (XOR) signature, where the XOR signature may be used to recover data of a block of the multiple blocks. During a recovery/relocation oper...