US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Optimized handling of neighbor plane disturb issues" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,213, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Optimized handling of neighbor plane disturb issues" was invented by Robin Chalana (Bengaluru, India), Ravi Dutt Sharma (Bengaluru, India) and Iyan Karkuvel Rajan Ayyathurai (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Memory blocks of a metablock are analyzed and tested to determine whether multiple memory blocks fail a first fault assessment. If more than one memory block fails the first fault assessment, the memory blocks are assigned to a retry pool. When in the retry pool, a second fault assessment is performed on the memory blocks. If one...