ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,384, issued on March 31, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Host-enabled block swap techniques" was invented by Lalla Fatima Drissi (Ottaviano, Italy), Anna Scalesse (Arzano, Italy), Iolanda Del Villano (Villa di Briano, Italy), Maddalena Calzolari (Milan), Chiara Cerafogli (Boise, Idaho) and Carla L. Christensen (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for host-enabled block swap techniques are described. In some examples, a host system may receive an indication of a health metric associated with a first physical block and a second physical block of a memory system, where a fir...