US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 7 for "Handling power-loss reset events with bad block risk mitigation" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,205, issued on July 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Handling power-loss reset events with bad block risk mitigation" was invented by Scott Anthony Stoller (Boise, Idaho) and Robert Winston Mason (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments provide for handling a power-loss reset (PLRESET) event in a memory system, such as a memory sub-system, with a technique that mitigates the risk of a good block being marked as bad, a memory die being retired prematurely, or both."

The patent was filed on Aug. 28, 2024, under Application No. 18/818,078.

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