ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,903, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Synchronizing operations between decks of a memory system" was invented by Amiya Banerjee (Bangalore, India) and Thibash Rajamani Balakrishnan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for synchronizing operations between decks of a memory system are described. In some examples, a memory system may determine a PEC difference between sister decks of physical blocks of the memory system. A memory system controller may associate the sister decks with respective virtual blocks. The controller may scan each virtual block of...