US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Lossless, area-efficient error detection scheme for flash memory" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,676, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Lossless, area-efficient error detection scheme for flash memory" was invented by Sajal Mittal (Bangalore, India) and Siddhesh Darne (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for detecting an error in a byte of data transmitted over a channel includes a controller having a first DBI encoder configured to perform a first DBI encoding on a received byte of data. The circuit also includes a channel configured to receive the encoded byte from the controller. The circuit also includes a non-volatile memory having a second DBI encoder an...