ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,940, issued on June 30, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Error handling in asymmetric sub-blocks" was invented by Raghavendra Gopalakrishnan (Bangalore, India) and Disha Gundecha (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device performs error handling using asymmetric blocks in a memory device. The memory may be divided into blocks of varying sizes. A controller on the storage device may process instructions by writing data to a first block on the memory device. If the controller determines an error occurred with a write operation to the first block and if the controller is unable to find a s...