US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 17 for "Die family management on a memory device using block family error avoidance" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,862, issued on March 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Die family management on a memory device using block family error avoidance" was invented by Steven Michael Kientz (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A target block family of a plurality of block families is identified periodically every predetermined number of program erase cycles (PECs) of a memory device. Each block family includes a plurality of blocks. A respective temporal voltage shift of each block of a subset of blocks of the target block family from each die of a plurality of dies associated with the target block family is obta...