US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Jan. 27 for "Deferred zone adjustment in zone memory system" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,962, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Deferred zone adjustment in zone memory system" was invented by Oyvind Haehre (Loveland, Colo.), Nathaniel Wessel (Longmont, Colo.) and Byron Harris (Mead, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide for deferring adjustment of a zone in a memory system or sub-system that supports zones. In particular, some embodiments provide for deferred adjustment of a zone based on detection of an error in a block of an unassigned block set, which can be tracked using a counter."

The patent was filed on May 15, 2024, under Application No. 18/665,...