ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,375, issued on July 7, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for recovering power on read failing die" was invented by Navkiran Sandhu (Dublin, Calif.), Rajan Paudel (Fremont, Calif.), Deepak Bharadwaj (Fremont, Calif.) and Jiahui Yuan (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided that includes a first memory die including first corresponding initialization information and a first data latch, and a first control circuit coupled to the first memory die. The first control circuit is configured to send a power on read command to the first memory die, determine that...