US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 4 for "Storage system and method for proactive die retirement by fatal wordline leakage detection" (Chinese, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,605, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Storage system and method for proactive die retirement by fatal wordline leakage detection" was invented by Xuan Tian (Shanghai), Liang Li (Shanghai), Dandan Yi (Shanghai), Jojo Xing (Shanghai), Vincent Yin (Shanghai), Yongke Sun (Shanghai) and Alan Bennett (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some situations, a leak on a wordline may be a localized problem that causes data loss in a block that contains the wordline. In other situations, such as when the leak occurs near a peripheral wordline routing area, the leak can affect...