US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on April 7 for "Memory management among multiple erase blocks coupled to a same string" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,646, issued on April 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory management among multiple erase blocks coupled to a same string" was invented by Kishore K. Muchherla (San Jose, Calif.), Hong Lu (San Jose, Calif.), Mark Ish (Manassas, Va.) and Akira Goda (Setagaya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus can comprise a memory array comprising a plurality of erase blocks and a plurality of strings of memory cells. Each string of the plurality of strings can comprise: a first group of memory cells coupled to a first group of access lines and corresponding to a first erase block; and a second group of mem...