US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 18 for "Reclaim unit organization by endurance capability" (Idaho, Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,892, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Reclaim unit organization by endurance capability" was invented by Kevin R Brandt (Boise, Idaho), Sampath Ratnam (San Jose, Calif.), David Ebsen (Minnetonka, Minn.), Brent Carl Byron (Boise, Idaho) and Daniel J. Hubbard (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure configure a memory sub-system controller to allow a host to control storage on the memory sub-system based on endurance of memory components. The controller groups the set of memory components into a plurality of categories representing different endurance level...