US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 24 for "Managing allocation of half good blocks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,391, issued on March 24, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Managing allocation of half good blocks" was invented by Yuqi Zhu (Milpitas, Calif.), Guang Hu (Mountain View, Calif.), Ting Luo (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Xiangang Luo (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure configure a system component, such as a memory sub-system controller, to dynamically allocate blocks from a free block pool. The controller generates a free block pool that includes a collection of full blocks and a collection of partial good blocks (PGBs) of a set of memory components, a size of a full bloc...