US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 31 for "Caching lookup tables for block family error avoidance" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,475, issued on March 31, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Caching lookup tables for block family error avoidance" was invented by Shakeel Isamohiuddin Bukhari (San Jose, Calif.) and Mark Ish (Manassas, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a memory device may cache a subset of one or more block family error avoidance (BFEA) lookup tables associated with a block family associated with host data in a first memory location. The block family may be based on at least one of a time window during which the host data was written or a temperature window at which the host data was written. The memo...