ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,694, issued on March 3, was assigned to Macronix International Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Managing logic units of memory devices" was invented by Sheng-Lun Wu (Toufen, Taiwan) and Chun-Lien Su (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor devices, methods, and memory systems for managing logic units are provided. In one aspect, a semiconductor device includes a logic unit associated with an identifier (ID). The logic unit includes a control logic and a reporting unit coupled to the control logic. The semiconductor device also includes a control interface coupled to the reporting unit. The control logic is configure...