US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 23 for "Media scan method to reduce active idle power of memory devices" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,896, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Media scan method to reduce active idle power of memory devices" was invented by Dengfeng Ruan (Shanghai) and Peng Fei (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing active idle power is a memory device includes incrementing, by a first processing device, a first counter when no read or write requests are received from a host system within a first predetermined period of time, and in response to determining that the first counter has reached a first predetermined threshold value, transitioning to a sleep mode. The method also includes incr...