US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 29 for "Temperature dependent refresh read rate" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,379, issued on July 29, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Temperature dependent refresh read rate" was invented by Yanzhen Wang (Fremont, Calif.), Mahdi Ganji (San Jose, Calif.) and Yanjie Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for effecting a temperature dependent refresh read rate of a read operation of a block or sub-block of memory cells in a NAND string. The method includes initiating a refresh read cycle, determining a current temperature of the non-volatile memory device, and determining a refresh read rate corresponding to the current temperature. The ref...