US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on March 31 for "Data storage device and method for managing a hot count difference in sub-block mode" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,288, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for managing a hot count difference in sub-block mode" was invented by Akash Nigam (Bangalore, India), Manoj M. Shenoy (Bangalore, India) and Lakshmi Sowjanya Sunkavelli (Kochi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A block of memory in a data storage device can be partitioned into two or more sub-blocks, where each sub-block is independent of the other sub-blocks. If the program-erase counts of the sub-blocks are sufficiently low, the same programming voltage can be used to program each of the sub-blocks. However, f...