US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 9 for "Virtual management unit scheme for two-pass programming in a memory sub-system" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,766, issued on June 9, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Virtual management unit scheme for two-pass programming in a memory sub-system" was invented by Johnny A. Lam (Firestone, Colo.), Samyukta Mudugal (Erie, Colo.), Sanjay Subbarao (Irvine, Calif.), Byron D. Harris (Mead, Colo.) and Daniel A. Boals (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data item is programmed to a first set of physical management units (MUs) associated with a memory sub-system in accordance with a first pass programming operation of a multi-pass programming scheme. An entry of a data structure is updated to include a mapping that...