US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 26 for "Efficient empty page scan operations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,212, issued on May 26, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Efficient empty page scan operations" was invented by Lei Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Peng Zhang (Los Altos, Calif.) and Murong Lang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure configures a system component, such as memory sub-system controller, to perform empty page scan operations. The controller, in response to a request to perform an empty page scan operation, identifies a portion of a set of memory components that is empty and ready to be programmed. The controller generates an order in which to perform the empty page scan operat...