ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,904, issued on July 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Adaptive error avoidance in the memory devices" was invented by Li-Te Chang (San Jose, Calif.), Yu-Chung Lien (San Jose, Calif.), Murong Lang (San Jose, Calif.), Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael G. Miller (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of performing memory access operations comprises: receiving a request to perform a memory access operation; identifying a block family associated with a set of memory cells; determining, for each logical programming level of a plurality of logical programming levels, a correspondi...