US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on April 29 for "Automatic XOR data programming by memory die for uncorrectable page failure recovery" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,708, issued on April 29, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatic XOR data programming by memory die for uncorrectable page failure recovery" was invented by Anantharaj Thalaimalai Vanaraj (San Jose, Calif.), Sai Gautham Thoppa (San Jose, Calif.) and Dharmaraju Marenahally Krishna (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present technology provide non-volatile memory devices comprising memory dies that natively generate "exclusive OR (XOR) data pages" that can be used to recover data pages corrupted by UECC errors. Through memory die native-XOR data page generation, em...