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Niles Yang — 46 Patents

STSandisk Technologies: 25 patents #176 of 2,594Top 7%
WTWestern Digital Technologies: 20 patents #141 of 3,180Top 5%
Mountain View, CA: #300 of 11,022 inventorsTop 3%
California: #9,249 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #62,001 of 4,157,543Top 2%
46 Patents All Time
Niles Yang has been granted 46 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sandisk Technologies. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in July 2025. Niles Yang ranks #62,001 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Niles Yang in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2016 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 2020.peak 122016: 8 patents20162017: 6 patents20172018: 3 patents20182019: 1 patents20192020: 12 patents20202021: 7 patents20212022: 3 patents20222023: 1 patents20232024: 2 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 46 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12353709 Protocol for solid state drive with high quality of service 2025-07-08
12265733 Segregating large data blocks for data storage system Daniel Linnen, Judah Gamliel Hahn 2025-04-01
12248397 Record and playback commands for storage devices Daniel Linnen, Ramanathan Muthiah, Judah Gamliel Hahn, Mark Shlick 2025-03-11
11941270 Data storage device with die-based enhanced thermal management 2024-03-26 $10,682,000
11941269 Data storage device with enhanced power mode management Sahil Sharma, Phil Reusswig 2024-03-26 $10,682,000
11599277 Storage system and method for performing a targeted read scrub operation during intensive host reads Nan Lu, Piyush A. Dhotre 2023-03-07 $8,618,000
11521688 Power reduction during open and erased block reads of memory based on the position of last written word line of a memory block Nan Lu 2022-12-06 $10,419,000
11409443 Intelligent memory wear leveling Ravi Kumar, Deepanshu Dutta, Mark Shlick 2022-08-09 $13,298,000
11398288 Storage medium-assisted system interface training scheme Phil Reusswig, Sahil Sharma, Rohit Sehgal 2022-07-26
11210001 Storage device parameter monitoring for load balancing Phil Reusswig, Sahil Sharma, Rohit Sehgal 2021-12-28 $10,337,000
11211132 Detection of a last programming loop for system performance gain Piyush A. Dhotre, Sahil Sharma, Phil Reusswig 2021-12-28
11164634 Non-volatile storage system with fast SLC operation Sahil Sharma, Rohit Sehgal, Phil Reusswig 2021-11-02 $23,020,000
11081187 Erase suspend scheme in a storage device Sahil Sharma, Phil Reusswig, Rohit Sehgal, Piyush A. Dhotre 2021-08-03
11030096 Method of identifying and preparing a key block in a flash memory system and memory controller therefor Sahil Sharma, Rohit Sehgal, Phil Reusswig 2021-06-08
10996862 Adaptive read trim for second read data retention Phil Reusswig, Mohsen Purahmad, Sahil Sharma, Rohit Sehgal 2021-05-04 $12,304,000
10884628 Performance of a read in a memory system Phil Reusswig, Alexandra Bauche 2021-01-05 $19,331,000
10817187 Balancing the block wearing leveling for optimum SSD endurance Sahil Sharma, Rohit Sehgal, Phil Reusswig 2020-10-27 $28,912,000
10790031 System handling for first read read disturb Piyush Sagdeo, Chris Yip, Sourabh Sankule, Pitamber Shukla, Anubhav Khandelwal +1 more 2020-09-29 $25,823,000
10770158 Detecting a faulty memory block Mahim Raj Gupta, Rohit Sehgal, Rohan Dhekane, Aaron Lee 2020-09-08 $32,536,000
10755798 Recovering data from a faulty memory block in a memory system Pitamber Shukla, Mohan Dunga 2020-08-25 $120,407,000
10741261 Method and system for improving performance of a storage device using asynchronous independent plane read functionality Sahil Sharma, Phil Reusswig, Rohit Sehgal 2020-08-11 $7,650,000
10714169 System and method for programming non-volatile memory during burst sequential write Phil Reusswig, Pitamber Shukla, Sarath Puthenthermadam, Mohan Dunga, Sahil Sharma +1 more 2020-07-14
10699776 Apparatus and methods for merging post-write read and select gate maintenance operations Lior Avital 2020-06-30 $13,377,000
10685722 Method and system for improving performance of a storage device using asynchronous independent plane read functionality Sahil Sharma, Phil Reusswig, Rohit Sehgal 2020-06-16 $138,757,000
10658045 Enhanced solid-state drive write performance with background erase Sahil Sharma, Rohit Sehgal, Phil Reusswig 2020-05-19 $35,725,000