US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Nov. 3 for "Method and system for enhancing lifespan of a NAND flash memory" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,850, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and system for enhancing lifespan of a NAND flash memory" was invented by Akhilesh Kumar Jaiswal (Bengaluru, India), Sumeet Paul (Bengaluru, India), Puneet Kukreja (Bengaluru, India), Shankar Athanikar (Bengaluru, India) and Vinay Kumar M N (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a NAND flash memory of a host device includes detecting a temporary failure of a first NAND block among a plurality of NAND blocks, in response to detecting the temporary failure of the first NAND block, determining a failure ver...