US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Nonvolatile memory with distributed XOR protection" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,492, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Nonvolatile memory with distributed XOR protection" was invented by Mohith Kumar N (Bangalore, India) and Sri Harsha Chintamaneni (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes control circuits that are configured to connect to a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells. The control circuits are configured to determine that a first portion of user data from the plurality of memory cells that was found to be uncorrectable by ECC is unrecoverable by a first Exclusive OR (XOR) operation using first XOR data and a second portion of...