US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 26 for "Data transfer during maintenance operations" (Colorado, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,998, issued on May 26, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Bosie, Idaho).

"Data transfer during maintenance operations" was invented by Deping He (Boise, Idaho) and Nadav Grosz (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data transfer during maintenance operations are described. A memory system utilize an auto-suspend feature to parallelize aspects of maintenance operations. For example, the memory system may suspend a programming operation being performed on a first block of memory cells. The memory system may read data from a second block of memory cells while the programming operation is ...