ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,173, issued on May 19, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Logical block address level data protection scheme" was invented by Sridhar Sabesan (Bangalore, India), Pavan Gururaj (Bangalore, India) and Dinesh Babu (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a data protection system that protects data on a logical block address (LBA) level. In one implementation, the data protection system populates and maintains a global parity mesh table. The global parity mesh table includes parity information associated with a group of two LBAs. If data associated with one of the LBAs in ...