US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on March 3 for "Efficient usage of redundant columns in flash memory" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,564, issued on March 3, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Efficient usage of redundant columns in flash memory" was invented by Raghavendra Gopalakrishnan (Bangalore, India) and Disha Gundecha (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may use unused bits in a memory device communicatively coupled to the storage device to reduce resource usage and time on the storage device during background operations. The memory device includes a plane having a redundant column section including unused bits. When the storage device receives instructions from a host device, a controller on the s...