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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2024
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Navkiran Sandhu, Dublin, CA (US);
Abhra Koley, San Jose, CA (US);
Rajan Paudel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A data storage device includes a bad block management system. The bad block management system detects a grown bad block of the data storage device. When a grown bad block is detected, the bad block management system initiates a manual block write process on the wordlines associated with the grown bad block. The manual block write process includes programming the wordlines of the grown bad block in a particular state and with a voltage that closes a leakage path between a bit line associated with the grown bad block and a ground line or a ground path associated with the grown bad block.