US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 18 for "Data storage device and method for runtime exclusive-or zoning during folding" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,936, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for runtime exclusive-or zoning during folding" was invented by Pawan Negi (Bengaluru, India) and Meer Afroz Mohammed (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device initially stores incoming data from a host in single-level cell (SLC) blocks and later folds the data from those blocks into a multi-level cell (MLC) block. If an error is detected during the folding operation, the data storage device pauses the folding operation, programs data that failed to be program and other data from the ini...