ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,472, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Light-weight BES approximation" was invented by David Rozman (Kiryat-Malakhi, Israel), Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Alon Eyal (Zichron Yaakov, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. When a read threshold calibration operation occurs, less than all of the pages of a representative wordline is sensed, such that read thresholds of less than all of the pages of the representative wordline is obtained. The obtained read th...