US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 17 for "Compute-in-memory using neural networks stored in a non-volatile memory for predictive block health assessment of the non-volatile memory" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,030, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Compute-in-memory using neural networks stored in a non-volatile memory for predictive block health assessment of the non-volatile memory" was invented by Liang Li (Shanghai), Xuan Tian (Shanghai), Ming Wang (Shanghai) and Yan Li (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Predictive block health assessment of a non-volatile memory can be performed by storing a pre-trained neural network for this purpose on the memory device itself. As operational errors occur during operation of the memory device, this defect data is saved by the non-volati...