US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 21 for "Known-failure error handling in a memory sub-system" (Idaho, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,897, issued on July 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Known-failure error handling in a memory sub-system" was invented by Robert Winston Mason (Boise, Idaho), Scott Anthony Stoller (Boise, Idaho) and Kyle Brock-Petersen (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a memory device for detecting, by a processing device, a failure exhibited by a set of cells of a memory device, estimating a severity of the failure, identifying, based on the severity of the failure, a failed subset of cells of the set of cells, and copying data from the failed subset of cells to a second set of cells o...