ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,072, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Storage controller having data augmentation components for use with non-volatile memory die" was invented by Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are disclosed for implementing data augmentation within a storage controller of a data storage device based on machine learning data read from a non-volatile memory (NVM) array of a memory die. Some particular aspects relate to configuring the storage controller to generate augmented versions of training images for use in...