ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,482, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory sub-system media management groups" was invented by Karl D. Schuh (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jiangang Wu (Milpitas, Calif.), Kishore K. Muchherla (Fremont, Calif.), Ashutosh Malshe (Fremont, Calif.) and Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory device and a processing device coupled to the memory device. The processing device can assign each of a plurality of superblocks to one of a plurality of groups. The processing device can monitor an order that each of the groups have been written to. The pro...