US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 21 for "Pre-validation of blocks for garbage collection" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,982, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Pre-validation of blocks for garbage collection" was invented by Nava Eisenstein (Petach tikwa, Israel) and Jonathan Journo (Shaarey tikwa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller. The controller is configured to select a source block, read metadata associated with the source block and compare to a logical block address to physical block address (L2P) table, determine if a flash management unit (FMU) of the source block is valid, and add a new entry associated with the FMU into a valid F...