ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,896, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Performing block-level media management operations for block stripes in a memory device" was invented by Wei Wang (Fremont, Calif.), Seungjune Jeon (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yang Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Charles See Yeung Kwong (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed including a memory device and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device can perform operations comprising identifying one or more valid pages of a first block, the first block being associated with a first...