US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Data storage device having a memory block failure anticipation system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,169, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device having a memory block failure anticipation system" was invented by Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy (San Jose, Calif.) and Jayavel Pachamuthu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a memory block failure anticipation system. The memory block failure anticipation system proactively detects defects in wordlines and/or memory blocks of the data storage device. To determine the presence of defects, the memory block failure anticipation system determines a failed bit count associated with one or more wo...