ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,891, issued on March 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Assigning blocks of memory systems" was invented by Deping He (Boise, Idaho) and Caixia Yang (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for assigning blocks of memory systems are described. Some memory systems may be configured to initiate an operation to characterize a plurality of blocks of a memory system; identify a first quantity of complete blocks of the plurality of blocks and a second quantity of reduced blocks of the plurality of blocks based at least in part on initiating the operation; determine, for a block of...