US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Apparatus and methods for read retry with conditional data refresh" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,527, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for read retry with conditional data refresh" was invented by Ming Wang (Shanghai), Liang Li (Shanghai), Yichen Wang (Shanghai), Wei Li (Shanghai) and Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a memory structure including non-volatile memory cells, and a control circuit coupled to the memory cell. The control circuit configured to first read a block of non-volatile memory cells using a first plurality of read levels, determine that the first read fails to successfully read the block of n...