US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Feb. 17 for "Handling grown bad blocks in a memory device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,426, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Handling grown bad blocks in a memory device" was invented by Navkiran Sandhu (Dublin, Calif.), Abhra Koley (San Jose, Calif.) and Rajan Paudel (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a bad block management system. The bad block management system detects a grown bad block of the data storage device. When a grown bad block is detected, the bad block management system initiates a manual block write process on the wordlines associated with the grown bad block. The manual block write process includes program...