ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,648, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory reset read using priority-based block pool" was invented by Lei Lin (Fremont, Calif.), Joshua C. Garrison (Folsom, Calif.), Yuxing Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Go Shikata (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein provide for performing a reset read operation on a memory device using a priority-based block pool, where the memory device can be part of a memory system. Various embodiments use the priority-based block pool to facilitate use of different multi-block options for performing reset read operations f...