US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Data storage device and method for inferring a read threshold using a time tag determination" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,187, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for inferring a read threshold using a time tag determination" was invented by David Avraham (San Jose, Calif.), Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Eran Sharon (Rishon Lezion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device has an inference engine that can infer a read threshold based on a non-linear function of inputs that reflect current memory and data conditions. The read threshold can be used in reading a wordline in the memory. Using a machine-learning-based approach...