US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 11 for "Selective management of erase operations in memory devices that enable suspend commands" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,156, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Selective management of erase operations in memory devices that enable suspend commands" was invented by Chulbum Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Kwon (Fremont, Calif.), Erwin E. Yu (San Jose, Calif.), Kitae Park (Cupertino, Calif.) and Taehyun Kim (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a memory array comprising memory cells and control logic operatively coupled with the memory array. The control logic causes, as part of a true erase sub-operation, an erase pulse to be applied to one or more sub-blocks of the memory array. ...