ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,608, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"I/O modulation scheme for ultra-high data throughput with massive NAND parallelism" was invented by Alvin Joshua (Fujisawa, Japan), Hardwell Chibvongodze (Hiratsuka, Japan) and Zhixin Cui (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed herein provide a modulation scheme that enables memory dies of a memory stack to occupy a shared data line in parallel, which increases data throughput within the memory stack. The systems and methods disclosed herein modulate data input/output (I/O) signals to convert the data ...