US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 14 for "Padding data for a non-volatile memory device" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,646, issued on July 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Padding data for a non-volatile memory device" was invented by Chonggiap Chiew (Singapore), Sean Brasfield (Boise, Idaho) and Tawalin Opastrakoon (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing data in a non-volatile memory system includes generating, by a randomizer integrated on a die of a memory device, padding data to close a memory block for a data write operation. The padding data is random data. The method includes programming, by a media controller of the memory device, the padding data into specified memory pages in a data bloc...