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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 07, 2023
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Huiwen Xu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Deepanshu Dutta, Fremont, CA (US);
Ken Oowada, Fujisawa, JP;
Bo Lei, San Ramon, CA (US);
Ravi J. Kumar, Redwood City, CA (US);
Sujjatul Islam, San Jose, CA (US);
Xue Pitner, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sandisk Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes one or more control circuits that are configured to connect to a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells. The one or more control circuits are configured to detect a first boundary between written and unwritten portions of an open block and, in response to detecting the first boundary, check for a second boundary between written and unwritten portions of the open block in order to determine if the open block was subject to a non-uniform erase operation.