US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Data storage device and method for bit error rate (BER) balancing based on dynamic sense time" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,128, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for bit error rate (BER) balancing based on dynamic sense time" was invented by Eran Sharon (Rishon Lezion, Israel) and Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When data is stored in a multi-level memory, the bit error rate among the various pages in the memory may be unbalanced. Different read-sense timings can be applied to different logical pages to mitigate this problem. More specifically, the sense time used to read a page can be based on a number of read thresholds involved in reading the pa...