US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 16 for "Programming-in-process flag for fuse elements" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,948, issued on June 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Programming-in-process flag for fuse elements" was invented by Donald Martin Morgan (Meridian, Idaho) and Alan J. Wilson (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for retiring pages of a memory device are described. An ordered set of device information pages may be used to store device information. The device information pages may be in non-volatile memory. Each page may include a counter value of the number of accesses to indicate if the page includes valid data. A flag associated with the page may be set when the counter...