ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,134, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Adaptive method to efficiently read out retention degraded NAND data" was invented by Tingting Zhang (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takashi Sugawara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a computing device with a solid state drive (SSD) includes: obtaining a preexisting read retry table that includes a sequential list of voltage index sets for reading a flash memory of the SSD; determining an aging parameter of the SSD; identifying a retry voltage index set from the sequential list based on the aging parameter; and reading the fl...