US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on May 20 for "Non-volatile memory with secure erase" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,104, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Non-volatile memory with secure erase" was invented by Liang Li (Shanghai), Ming Wang (Shanghai) and Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-volatile memory system is configured to permanently erase a single file from a block of non-volatile memory cells. That block is storing programmed data including the single file to be erased and other programmed data. The single file is erased from the block such that the other programmed data in the block is not moved or otherwise disturbed."

The patent was filed on July 26, 2023, u...