US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 7 for "Memory operation based on block-associated temperature" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,225, issued on July 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory operation based on block-associated temperature" was invented by Pitamber Shukla (San Jose, Calif.), Ching-Huang Lu (Fremont, Calif.) and Devin Batutis (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide for performing a memory operation, such as a memory block compaction operation or block folding or refresh operation, based on a temperature associated with a memory block of a memory device. For instance, some embodiments provide for techniques that can cause performance of a block compaction operation on a memory block at a...