ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,476, issued on March 31, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Empty page detection" was invented by Kyungjin Kim (San Jose, 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 detect erroneous empty pages. The controller detects a read error associated with reading data from a set of memory components in accordance with an individual read level of a plurality of read levels. In response to detecting the read error, the controller computes one or more check failure unit count values corresponding to the individual read leve...