US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 12 for "Repair operation techniques" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,636, issued on May 12, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc..

"Repair operation techniques" was invented by Alan J. Wilson (Boise, Idaho) and Donald M. Morgan (Meridan, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for repair operation techniques are described. A memory device may detect a failure of a read operation associated with a physical row address of a memory die. The memory device may store information associated with the physical row address before performing a media management operation and after detecting the failure. Additionally or alternatively, the memory device may initiate a counter based on det...