US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on May 12 for "Data storage device and method for direct data quantization in multi-level-cell memory" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,800, issued on May 12, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for direct data quantization in multi-level-cell memory" was invented by Snehal Vithal Uphale (Bangalore, India) and Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a data storage device with a multi-level-cell memory, bits of data are stored in different levels of each of the memory cells. In some situations, a quantized version of the stored data (e.g., the most-significant bits) may be requested. Responding to such a request can involve reading all levels of the memory cells to retrieve a full ...