US Patent Issued to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES on June 10 for "Data retention-specific refresh read" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,046, issued on June 10, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data retention-specific refresh read" was invented by Muhammad Masuduzzaman (Chandler, Ariz.), Deepanshu Dutta (Fremont, Calif.) and Abhijith Prakash (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device is provided that conditionally performs read refresh in blocks having higher P/E cycles or older programming times, while refraining from performing read refreshes in blocks having lower P/E cycles or recent programming times. The storage device includes a memory and a controller. The memory includes a block having cells. The controller...