US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 27 for "Cold and hot region detection for a memory system" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,415, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Cold and hot region detection for a memory system" was invented by Nicola Colella (Capodrise, Italy), Alessandro Novati (Verano Brianza, Italy) and Federico Amedeo Izzo (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for cold and hot region detection are described. A memory system may maintain access counters within a tiered structure, where the access counters indicate quantities of access operations in each of multiple different levels of memory regions. For example, the memory system may maintain a first counter that indicates a qua...