ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,526, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus to select a plane in a NAND flash die to store a read-only reserved block" was invented by Chang Wan Ha (San Ramon, Calif.), Quincy S. Chiu (Portland, Ore.), Hoon Koh (San Jose, Calif.), Kristopher H. Gaewsky (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Aliasgar S. Madraswala (Folsom, Calif.), Bharat M. Pathak (Folsom, Calif.), Pranav Kalavade (San Jose, Calif.), Akshay Jayaraj (Folsom, Calif.), Simerjeet Singh (Galt, Calif.) and Zengtao Liu (Eagle, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Manufacturing yield loss of NAND Flash dies ...