ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,657, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Using a zone wordline table to initiate a find last good page process" was invented by Gopu S (Kottarakkara, India), Binoy Jose Panakkal (Ernakulam, India), Subin CP (Kozhikode, India), Pawan Kumar Negi (Bangalore, India) and Bhavadip Solanki (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a wordline zone table that stores information about how wordlines of one or more memory blocks are divided into wordline zones. The wordline zone table also stores a value associated with each wordline zone. When the memory device receives...