The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2012
Applicants:
Zac Shepard, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven T. Sprouse, San Jose, CA (US);
Chris Nga Yee Avila, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Zac Shepard, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven T. Sprouse, San Jose, CA (US);
Chris Nga Yee Avila, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
SanDisk Technologies Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/34 (2006.01); G11C 11/56 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01); G11C 16/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/5628 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01); G11C 16/3418 (2013.01); G11C 16/349 (2013.01); G11C 2211/5641 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a nonvolatile memory that stores data in two or more different data storage formats, such as binary and MLC, a separation scheme is used to distribute blocks containing data in one data storage format (e.g. binary) so that they are separated by at least some minimum number of blocks using another data storage format (e.g. MLC).