US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 14 for "Memory architecture for block migration in ZNS" (Hawaii Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,660, issued on July 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory architecture for block migration in ZNS" was invented by Paul Stonelake (Kihei, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure configures a memory sub-system controller to efficiently perform block migration (e.g., from SLC cache to QLC blocks) in a Zone Namespace (ZNS) device. The controller associates a plurality of zones of the set of memory components with a plurality of internal zone groups (IZGs) each associated with a different write cursor. The controller programs data to a first portion of a set of memory components using the plurali...