ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,202, issued on July 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Selective media scanning for a virtual block" was invented by Peng Zhang (Los Altos, Calif.), Murong Lang (San Jose, Calif.), Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.) and Lei Lin (Freemont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a media scan operation on a virtual block in a memory device is described herein. The method includes incrementing a first count value of a first read counter via a controller in response to a first read operation performed on a first fractional good block of the virtual block. The method also includes incrementing a ...