US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on May 20 for "Early detection of room temperature data retention phenomena" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,710, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Early detection of room temperature data retention phenomena" was invented by Pradeep Hegde (Bangalore, India), Akhilesh Yadav (Bangalore, India) and Shivam Mishra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Early detection of Room Temperature Data Retention (RTDR) phenomena in programmed metablocks of data storage devices. In one embodiment, a memory controller includes a memory interface configured to interface with a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller is configured to program a metablock of the non-volatile memory. Programm...