US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 11 for "Managing allocation of sub-blocks in a memory sub-system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,970, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Managing allocation of sub-blocks in a memory sub-system" was invented by Yu-Chung Lien (San Jose, Calif.), Tomer Tzvi Eliash (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device, operatively coupled with a memory device, performs a first programming operation on a first set of cells associated with a first sub-block of a first die of the memory device, wherein each die of the memory device comprises a plurality of sub-blocks. The processing device identifies, based on a first predefined value, a secon...