US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 2 for "Efficient periodic backend refresh reads for reducing bit error rate in memory devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,828, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Efficient periodic backend refresh reads for reducing bit error rate in memory devices" was invented by Tingjun Xie (Milpitas, Calif.), Yang Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Juane Li (Milpitas, Calif.), Aaron Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jiangli Zhu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device in a memory sub-system traverses a plurality of management units of a memory device at a defined scan/read refresh frequency. For every management unit of the plurality of management units, the processing device identifies a page satisfying a lowest sens...