US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 2 for "Apparatus with memory block management and methods for operating the same" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,764, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatus with memory block management and methods for operating the same" was invented by Kyungjin Kim (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods, apparatuses and systems related to manage memory blocks. A memory system can track a duration while a memory block remains open for programming operations. When the tracked duration meets or exceeds a corresponding threshold, the memory system can implement an internally commanded programming operation to store predetermined data into an open location that is adjacent to an end...