US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 16 for "Power-efficient monitoring for usage-based-disturbance mitigation" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,960, issued on June 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Power-efficient monitoring for usage-based-disturbance mitigation" was invented by Yang Lu (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and techniques are described implementing power-efficient monitoring for usage-based-disturbance mitigation. In a first aspect, a memory device takes a less strict approach for monitoring worse-case conditions associated with usage-based disturbance. In particular, the memory device conserves power by foregoing updating a list of rows associated with worse-case conditions until an unlisted row has a substantia...