G06F 2212/1036
Life time enhancement
G06F2212/1036 (Life time enhancement) appears on 918 US grants and 989 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 918
- Published applications
- 989
- Assignees
- 238
- Inventors
- 1,628
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 3 | 5 |
| 2004 | 2 | 6 |
| 2005 | 4 | 5 |
| 2006 | 11 | 10 |
| 2007 | 4 | 33 |
| 2008 | 12 | 42 |
| 2009 | 8 | 28 |
| 2010 | 26 | 26 |
| 2011 | 21 | 27 |
| 2012 | 29 | 22 |
| 2013 | 21 | 26 |
| 2014 | 30 | 38 |
| 2015 | 36 | 43 |
| 2016 | 57 | 71 |
| 2017 | 59 | 76 |
| 2018 | 64 | 65 |
| 2019 | 75 | 95 |
| 2020 | 106 | 111 |
| 2021 | 86 | 68 |
| 2022 | 82 | 65 |
| 2023 | 65 | 46 |
| 2024 | 52 | 38 |
| 2025 | 40 | 26 |
| 2026 | 12 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Data compression25 Aug 2026US 12,717,475 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- System and method for memory bad block management25 Aug 2026US 12,717,492 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Memory system and method for controlling nonvolatile memory26 May 2026US 12,638,970 B2Kioxia Corporation
- Data encoding method for 3D NAND flash memory12 May 2026US 12,625,765 B2City University of Hong Kong
- Data storage device and method for configuring a memory to write a requested amount of data over the memory's lifetime5 May 2026US 12,619,528 B2SanDisk Technologies LLC
- Balancing wear across multiple reclaim groups9 Jul 2026US 2026/0195048 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Multiple write programming for a segment of a memory device9 Jul 2026US 2026/0195264 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Signal development caching in a memory device2 Jul 2026US 2026/0186709 A1Micron Technology, Inc.
- Flexible background data refresh architecture2 Jul 2026US 2026/0186958 A1
- Systems, methods, and apparatus for data placement in a storage device25 Jun 2026US 2026/0178236 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Unified re-map and cache-index table with dual write-counters for wear-leveling of non-volatile flash RAM mass storage666US 6,000,006 ABit Microsystems, Inc. · 1999
- Wear leveling techniques for flash EEPROM systems553US 6,230,233 B1SanDisk Corporation · 2001
- Flash memory mass storage architecture incorporating wear leveling technique without using cam cells376US 5,485,595 ACirrus Logic, Inc. · 1996
- Wear leveling techniques for flash EEPROM systems370US 6,081,447 ASanDisk Corporation · 2000
- Flash memory mass storage architecture incorporation wear leveling technique364US 5,479,638 ACirrus Logic, Inc. · 1995