ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,899, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"System for generating virtual block stripes in a memory device" was invented by Aaron Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daniel Zhang (Milpitas, Calif.), Yang Liu (Melissa, Texas), Tingjun Xie (Milpitas, Calif.), Juane Li (Milpitas, Calif.) and Jiangli Zhu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a virtual block stripe in a memory device is described. The method includes determining a minimum quantity of data blocks in the virtual block stripe to be generated and determining that a first bank has a first quantity of operational data ...