US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Data storage device and method for read scrub with reduced read amplification" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,348, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for read scrub with reduced read amplification" was invented by Chappidi Sai Revanth Reddy (Andhra Pradesh, India), Narendhiran Chinnaanangur Ravimohan (Bangalore, India), Deepak Yadav (New Delhi) and Ankit Gupta (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device tracks information about the ages and read counts of blocks of memory, which are indicative of data retention and read disturb issues, respectively. The data storage device uses a machine-learning model to predict which blocks in the m...