Nian Niles Yang

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Mountain View, CA, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

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SSD auxiliary battery power for handling ungraceful shutdown with host
- Patent number 12,216,920
- Issue date Feb 4, 2025
- SanDisk Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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SSD auxiliary battery power for handling ungraceful shutdown with host
- Patent number 11,934,664
- Issue date Mar 19, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Level dependent error correction code protection in multi-level non...
- Patent number 11,527,300
- Issue date Dec 13, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Efficient data storage usage associated with ungraceful shutdown
- Patent number 11,416,058
- Issue date Aug 16, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Intelligent power saving mode for solid state drive (ssd) systems
- Patent number 11,397,460
- Issue date Jul 26, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Temperature variation compensation
- Patent number 11,385,802
- Issue date Jul 12, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Eran Sharon
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Variable read scan for solid-state storage device quality of service
- Patent number 11,385,984
- Issue date Jul 12, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Using over provisioning space for selectively storing block parity
- Patent number 11,354,190
- Issue date Jun 7, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Rohit Sehgal
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Storage system and method for boundary wordline data retention hand...
- Patent number 11,334,256
- Issue date May 17, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Sahil Sharma
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Thermal throttling for memory devices
- Patent number 11,016,545
- Issue date May 25, 2021
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Dynamically adjust data transfer speed for non-volatile memory die...
- Patent number 10,971,215
- Issue date Apr 6, 2021
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Yang
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Enhancing the effectiveness of read scan performance and reliabilit...
- Patent number 10,896,123
- Issue date Jan 19, 2021
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Physical secure erase of solid state drives
- Patent number 10,839,914
- Issue date Nov 17, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Zhenlei Z. Shen
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Pre-program read to counter wordline failures
- Patent number 10,832,784
- Issue date Nov 10, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Sahil Sharma
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Erase health metric to rank memory portions
- Patent number 10,732,856
- Issue date Aug 4, 2020
- SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Nian Niles Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Storage system and method for performing high-speed read and write...
- Patent number 10,698,610
- Issue date Jun 30, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Pre-program read to counter wordline failures
- Patent number 10,679,708
- Issue date Jun 9, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Sahil Sharma
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Temperature variation compensation
- Patent number 10,642,510
- Issue date May 5, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Eran Sharon
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Read verify for improved soft bit information for non-volatile memo...
- Patent number 10,636,504
- Issue date Apr 28, 2020
- SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Philip David Reusswig
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Dynamic management of programming states to improve endurance
- Patent number 10,629,260
- Issue date Apr 21, 2020
- SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Nian Niles Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Parameter tracking for non-volatile memory to avoid over-programming
- Patent number 10,573,397
- Issue date Feb 25, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Rohit Sehgal
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Performance based memory block usage
- Patent number 10,515,008
- Issue date Dec 24, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Rohit Sehgal
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Adaptive erase fail bit criteria
- Patent number 10,482,986
- Issue date Nov 19, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Chao-Han Cheng
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Non-volatile memory with dynamic write abort detection and recovery
- Patent number 10,452,471
- Issue date Oct 22, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Zhenlei Shen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
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Memory health monitoring
- Patent number 10,402,117
- Issue date Sep 3, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Memory die temperature adjustment based on a power condition
- Patent number 10,379,754
- Issue date Aug 13, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Philip David Reusswig
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Read mode tuning
- Patent number 10,381,097
- Issue date Aug 13, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles Yang
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Memory failure detection and resource allocation
- Patent number 10,354,736
- Issue date Jul 16, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Group read refresh
- Patent number 10,347,315
- Issue date Jul 9, 2019
- SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Philip David Reusswig
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Storage system and method for reducing XOR recovery time by excludi...
- Patent number 10,339,000
- Issue date Jul 2, 2019
- SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Nian Niles Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

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SSD Auxiliary Battery Power For Handling Ungraceful Shutdown With Host
- Publication number 20240118814
- Publication date Apr 11, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian YANG
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
SSD Auxiliary Battery Power For Handling Ungraceful Shutdown With Host
- Publication number 20230205429
- Publication date Jun 29, 2023
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian YANG
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Efficient Data Storage Usage Associated With Ungraceful Shutdown
- Publication number 20220129055
- Publication date Apr 28, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles YANG
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Level Dependent Error Correction Code Protection in Multi-Level Non...
- Publication number 20220068423
- Publication date Mar 3, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian YANG
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
USING OVER PROVISIONING SPACE FOR SELECTIVELY STORING BLOCK PARITY
- Publication number 20220050747
- Publication date Feb 17, 2022
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Rohit Sehgal
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
VARIABLE READ SCAN FOR SOLID-STATE STORAGE DEVICE QUALITY OF SERVICE
- Publication number 20210263821
- Publication date Aug 26, 2021
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Storage System and Method for Boundary Wordline Data Retention Hand...
- Publication number 20210240358
- Publication date Aug 5, 2021
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Sahil Sharma
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
INTELLIGENT POWER SAVING MODE FOR SOLID STATE DRIVE (SSD) SYSTEMS
- Publication number 20200401207
- Publication date Dec 24, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Pre-Program Read to Counter Wordline Failures
- Publication number 20200258582
- Publication date Aug 13, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Sahil SHARMA
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
TEMPERATURE VARIATION COMPENSATION
- Publication number 20200225852
- Publication date Jul 16, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- ERAN SHARON
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ENHANCING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF READ SCAN PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILIT...
- Publication number 20200192791
- Publication date Jun 18, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PRE-PROGRAM READ TO COUNTER WORDLINE FAILURES
- Publication number 20200090759
- Publication date Mar 19, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Sahil SHARMA
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Storage System and Method for Performing High-Speed Read and Write...
- Publication number 20190265888
- Publication date Aug 29, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PHYSICAL SECURE ERASE OF SOLID STATE DRIVES
- Publication number 20190252025
- Publication date Aug 15, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Zhenlei Z. SHEN
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
READ MODE TUNING
- Publication number 20190130989
- Publication date May 2, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles Yang
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
READ VERIFY FOR IMPROVED SOFT BIT INFORMATION FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMO...
- Publication number 20190130982
- Publication date May 2, 2019
- SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Philip David Reusswig
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
GROUP READ REFRESH
- Publication number 20190130964
- Publication date May 2, 2019
- SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Philip David Reusswig
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
ADAPTIVE ERASE FAIL BIT CRITERIA
- Publication number 20190122741
- Publication date Apr 25, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Chao-Han Cheng
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
PERFORMANCE BASED MEMORY BLOCK USAGE
- Publication number 20190121725
- Publication date Apr 25, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Rohit Sehgal
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH DYNAMIC WRITE ABORT DETECTION AND RECOVERY
- Publication number 20190108090
- Publication date Apr 11, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Zhenlei Shen
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
ROUTING DATA BLOCKS DURING THERMAL THROTTLING
- Publication number 20190050153
- Publication date Feb 14, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles YANG
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF PROGRAMMING STATES TO IMPROVE ENDURANCE
- Publication number 20190035457
- Publication date Jan 31, 2019
- SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Nian Niles Yang
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
OPERATING PARAMETER OFFSETS IN SOLID STATE MEMORY DEVICES
- Publication number 20190004734
- Publication date Jan 3, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Roi Kirshenbaum
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
COMPACTING OPERATING PARAMETER GROUPS IN SOLID STATE MEMORY DEVICES
- Publication number 20190006003
- Publication date Jan 3, 2019
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Roi Kirshenbaum
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
HANDLING OF THE THERMAL DISPARITY ACROSS MULTIPLE PACKAGES IN HIGH...
- Publication number 20180374547
- Publication date Dec 27, 2018
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles YANG
- G05 - CONTROLLING REGULATING
Information Patent Application
HANDLING THERMAL SHUTDOWN FOR MEMORY DEVICES
- Publication number 20180349046
- Publication date Dec 6, 2018
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles YANG
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
PHYSICAL SECURE ERASE OF SOLID STATE DRIVES
- Publication number 20180342301
- Publication date Nov 29, 2018
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Zhenlei Z. SHEN
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING OVERHEATING OF THE STORAGE S...
- Publication number 20180315483
- Publication date Nov 1, 2018
- WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Nian Niles Yang
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
TEMPERATURE VARIATION COMPENSATION
- Publication number 20180293009
- Publication date Oct 11, 2018
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- ERAN SHARON
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
MEMORY HEALTH MONITORING
- Publication number 20180285018
- Publication date Oct 4, 2018
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Nian Niles YANG
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING

Nian Niles Yang

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

SSD auxiliary battery power for handling ungraceful shutdown with host

SSD auxiliary battery power for handling ungraceful shutdown with host

Level dependent error correction code protection in multi-level non...

Efficient data storage usage associated with ungraceful shutdown

Intelligent power saving mode for solid state drive (ssd) systems

Temperature variation compensation

Variable read scan for solid-state storage device quality of service

Using over provisioning space for selectively storing block parity

Storage system and method for boundary wordline data retention hand...

Thermal throttling for memory devices

Dynamically adjust data transfer speed for non-volatile memory die...

Enhancing the effectiveness of read scan performance and reliabilit...

Physical secure erase of solid state drives

Pre-program read to counter wordline failures

Erase health metric to rank memory portions

Storage system and method for performing high-speed read and write...

Pre-program read to counter wordline failures

Temperature variation compensation

Read verify for improved soft bit information for non-volatile memo...

Dynamic management of programming states to improve endurance

Parameter tracking for non-volatile memory to avoid over-programming

Performance based memory block usage

Adaptive erase fail bit criteria

Non-volatile memory with dynamic write abort detection and recovery

Memory health monitoring

Memory die temperature adjustment based on a power condition

Read mode tuning

Memory failure detection and resource allocation

Group read refresh

Storage system and method for reducing XOR recovery time by excludi...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

SSD Auxiliary Battery Power For Handling Ungraceful Shutdown With Host

SSD Auxiliary Battery Power For Handling Ungraceful Shutdown With Host

Efficient Data Storage Usage Associated With Ungraceful Shutdown

Level Dependent Error Correction Code Protection in Multi-Level Non...

USING OVER PROVISIONING SPACE FOR SELECTIVELY STORING BLOCK PARITY

VARIABLE READ SCAN FOR SOLID-STATE STORAGE DEVICE QUALITY OF SERVICE

Storage System and Method for Boundary Wordline Data Retention Hand...

INTELLIGENT POWER SAVING MODE FOR SOLID STATE DRIVE (SSD) SYSTEMS

Pre-Program Read to Counter Wordline Failures

TEMPERATURE VARIATION COMPENSATION

ENHANCING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF READ SCAN PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILIT...

PRE-PROGRAM READ TO COUNTER WORDLINE FAILURES

Storage System and Method for Performing High-Speed Read and Write...

PHYSICAL SECURE ERASE OF SOLID STATE DRIVES

READ MODE TUNING

READ VERIFY FOR IMPROVED SOFT BIT INFORMATION FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMO...

GROUP READ REFRESH

ADAPTIVE ERASE FAIL BIT CRITERIA

PERFORMANCE BASED MEMORY BLOCK USAGE

NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH DYNAMIC WRITE ABORT DETECTION AND RECOVERY

ROUTING DATA BLOCKS DURING THERMAL THROTTLING

DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF PROGRAMMING STATES TO IMPROVE ENDURANCE

OPERATING PARAMETER OFFSETS IN SOLID STATE MEMORY DEVICES

COMPACTING OPERATING PARAMETER GROUPS IN SOLID STATE MEMORY DEVICES

HANDLING OF THE THERMAL DISPARITY ACROSS MULTIPLE PACKAGES IN HIGH...

HANDLING THERMAL SHUTDOWN FOR MEMORY DEVICES

PHYSICAL SECURE ERASE OF SOLID STATE DRIVES

STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HANDLING OVERHEATING OF THE STORAGE S...

TEMPERATURE VARIATION COMPENSATION

MEMORY HEALTH MONITORING