US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Relinking scheme for sub-blocks of grown bad memory blocks" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,120, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Relinking scheme for sub-blocks of grown bad memory blocks" was invented by Mohith Kumar N (Bangalore, India), Sri Harsha Chintamaneni (Bangalore, India) and Shashikumar Jk (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a memory block relinking system. The memory block relinking system identifies memory blocks that have been identified as grown bad blocks. The memory block relinking system analyzes the memory blocks that have been identified as grown bad blocks to determine whether a sub-block of the memory block ...