US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 17 for "Boot process to improve data retention in memory devices" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,887, issued on March 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Boot process to improve data retention in memory devices" was invented by Douglas Eugene Majerus (Boise, Idaho), Cheng Long Ben (Shanghai) and Qisong Lin (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a boot block that stores boot block code encoded using an encoding scheme. The boot block code includes a set of machine-readable instructions for booting the memory sub-system. A read command directed at the boot block is received while the memory device is in a boot state. Based on the command, the encoded boot block cod...