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SINCLAIR ALAN WELSH
GB48 patents
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SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC
11 patentsUS8375146B2Feb 12, 2013
Ring bus structure and its use in flash memory systems
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC321 citations99
US7984084B2Jul 19, 2011
Non-volatile memory with scheduled reclaim operations
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC130 citations99
US10133490B2Nov 20, 2018
System and method for managing extended maintenance scheduling in a non-volatile memory
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC96 citations98
US10120613B2Nov 6, 2018
System and method for rescheduling host and maintenance operations in a non-volatile memory
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC94 citations98
US9778855B2Oct 3, 2017
System and method for precision interleaving of data writes in a non-volatile memory
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC90 citations98
US9336133B2May 10, 2016
Method and system for managing program cycles including maintenance programming operations in a multi-layer memory
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC92 citations98
US9870153B2Jan 16, 2018
Non-volatile memory systems utilizing storage address tables
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC2 citations73
US9690491B2Jun 27, 2017
System and method for managing data in a memory device
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC6 citations73
US10042553B2Aug 7, 2018
Method and system for programming a multi-layer non-volatile memory having a single fold data path
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC1 citations52
US9804979B2Oct 31, 2017
Ring bus architecture for use in a memory module
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC1 citations52
US9632705B2Apr 25, 2017
System and method for adaptive memory layers in a memory device
SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC1 citations52
SANDISK CORP
11 patentsUS7409489B2Aug 5, 2008
Scheduling of reclaim operations in non-volatile memory
SANDISK CORP67 citations99
US7127549B2Oct 24, 2006
Disk acceleration using first and second storage devices
SANDISK CORP118 citations99
US7552271B2Jun 23, 2009
Nonvolatile memory with block management
SANDISK CORP120 citations98
US7433993B2Oct 7, 2008
Adaptive metablocks
SANDISK CORP59 citations98
US7310699B2Dec 18, 2007
Mass storage accelerator
SANDISK CORP95 citations98
US7139864B2Nov 21, 2006
Non-volatile memory and method with block management system
SANDISK CORP202 citations98
US7136973B2Nov 14, 2006
Dual media storage device
SANDISK CORP70 citations98
US7877540B2Jan 25, 2011
Logically-addressed file storage methods
SANDISK CORP42 citations93
US7383375B2Jun 3, 2008
Data run programming
SANDISK CORP43 citations93
US7302534B2Nov 27, 2007
Dual media storage device
SANDISK CORP17 citations93
US7558906B2Jul 7, 2009
Methods of managing blocks in nonvolatile memory
SANDISK CORP11 citations84
SINCLAIR ALAN WELSH
9 patentsUS9734050B2Aug 15, 2017
Method and system for managing background operations in a multi-layer memory
SINCLAIR ALAN WELSH93 citations97
US9734911B2Aug 15, 2017
Method and system for asynchronous die operations in a non-volatile memory
SINCLAIR ALAN WELSH129 citations97
US9465731B2Oct 11, 2016
Multi-layer non-volatile memory system having multiple partitions in a layer
SINCLAIR ALAN WELSH95 citations97
US9348746B2May 24, 2016
Method and system for managing block reclaim operations in a multi-layer memory
SINCLAIR ALAN WELSH94 citations97
US9223693B2Dec 29, 2015
Memory system having an unequal number of memory die on different control channels
SINCLAIR ALAN WELSH101 citations97
US8873284B2Oct 28, 2014
Method and system for program scheduling in a multi-layer memory
SINCLAIR ALAN WELSH99 citations97
US8291151B2Oct 16, 2012
Enhanced host interface
SINCLAIR ALAN WELSH38 citations96
US8537613B2Sep 17, 2013
Multi-layer memory system
SINCLAIR ALAN WELSH22 citations92
US8103841B2Jan 24, 2012
Non-volatile memory and method with non-sequential update block management
SINCLAIR ALAN WELSH10 citations92
LEXAR MEDIA INC
6 patentsUS7340581B2Mar 4, 2008
Method of writing data to non-volatile memory
LEXAR MEDIA INC127 citations99
US6711059B2Mar 23, 2004
Memory controller
LEXAR MEDIA INC153 citations98
US6578127B1Jun 10, 2003
Memory devices
LEXAR MEDIA INC98 citations98
US6490649B2Dec 3, 2002
Memory device
LEXAR MEDIA INC145 citations98
US6725321B1Apr 20, 2004
Memory system
LEXAR MEDIA INC407 citations96
US6813678B1Nov 2, 2004
Flash memory system
LEXAR MEDIA INC102 citations93