US Patent Issued to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 3 for "Adaptive wear-leveling of sub-blocks in non-volatile memory" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,129, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Adaptive wear-leveling of sub-blocks in non-volatile memory" was invented by Disha Gundecha (Pune, India) and Raghavendra Gopalakrishnan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may maintain data reliability between sub-blocks by executing wear leveling operations such that a program-erase count (PEC) difference between sister sub-blocks is reduced. The storage device may include a memory device including blocks, and at least one of the blocks may be divided into sister sub-blocks. The storage device may also include a contro...