US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 8 for "Recovery of retired memory blocks in a memory device" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,292, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Recovery of retired memory blocks in a memory device" was invented by Nitin Jain (Bengaluru, India), Maharudra Nagnath Swami (Bengaluru, India) and Naveen Menezes (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory block recovery process is used to review and recover memory blocks of a memory device that have potentially been misidentified as bad blocks. The memory block recovery process is initiated when a threshold number of entries in a failed memory block list is exceeded. During the memory block recovery process, the failed memory block li...