ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,520, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Irregular jumbo block size unification" was invented by Igor Genshaft (Bat Yam, Israel), Vered Kelner (Gan Haim, Ill.) and Marina Frid (Jerusalem).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to improved performance for jumbo blocks (JBs) with a low die count. Rather than variable performance for each irregular jumbo block (IRJB), the same performance can be achieved with all IRJBs. Using an IRJB size unification process relinking the die blocks from relatively rich (i.e., large) IRJBs with the die blocks of the poor (i.e., ...