US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Data storage device and method for predicting future read thresholds" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,814, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for predicting future read thresholds" was invented by David Avraham (San Jose, Calif.), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel), Eran Sharon (Rishon Lezion, Israel) and Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Before a read threshold is needed to read a wordline in memory, a data storage device can infer a plurality of read thresholds based on possible conditions of the memory that may exist when the read threshold is eventually needed. When the read threshold is needed, it is selected from the previously-...