US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 7 for "Controller-level memory repair" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,361, issued on July 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Controller-level memory repair" was invented by Smruti Subhash Jhaveri (Boise, Idaho) and Hyun Yoo Lee (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described apparatuses and methods facilitate sharing redundant memory portions at a controller-level to enable memory repair between two or more memory blocks. Each memory die of multiple memory dies can include, for instance, multiple spare rows for use if a row of a memory array has a faulty bit. If a memory die has more faults than spare rows, the memory die cannot repair the additional faults. This document ...