US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 30 for "Adaptive super block wear leveling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,939, issued on June 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Adaptive super block wear leveling" was invented by Ying Yu Tai (Mountain View, Calif.) and Seungjune Jeon (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a memory device a memory device comprising multiple dies, and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform various operations including identifying multiple management units to be programmed, where one management unit contains memory cells from a die having one endurance metric and another management unit contains memory cells from a die having ano...