US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 17 for "Level-based data refresh in a memory sub-system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,031, issued on March 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Level-based data refresh in a memory sub-system" was invented by Yu-Chung Lien (San Jose, Calif.), Huai-Yuan Tseng (San Ramon, Calif.) and Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform operations including writing data to an MU of the memory device and performing one or more scan operations on the MU to determine an aggregate value of a data state metric reflective of an amount of erroneous memory cells in the MU. The ope...