US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on April 21 for "Error handling during a memory compaction process" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,181, issued on April 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Error handling during a memory compaction process" was invented by Ravi Dutt Sharma (Bangalore, India), Tusarkanta Champatiray (Bangalre, India) and Yogendra Sikarwar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory compaction process utilizes unused or reserved memory locations in an intermediate memory block to temporarily store data that has been read and/or corrected from a source memory block. As data may be read from the source memory block in different reading cycles, this process repeats until all of the data of the source memory...