ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,275, issued on July 8, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Optimized erratic program detection process" was invented by Parth Amin (Fremont, Calif.), Sai Gautham Thoppa (San Jose, Calif.) and Anubhav Khandelwal (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein aim to optimize the Erratic Program Detection (EPD) process by eliminating unnecessary operations and adjusting operations that are not optimized for the EPD process. For example, one optimization includes the EPD read operations being performed based on a read mode optimized for faster data retrieval. Further, anoth...