US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 27 for "Regulated block folding for memory devices" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,521, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Regulated block folding for memory devices" was invented by Chao-Han Cheng (San Jose, Calif.), Jen Hung Liao (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Li-Te Chang (San Jose, Calif.), Chia-Wei Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chung An Hsu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device identifies a block from a set of blocks of a memory device that is classified in the highest bin among multiple bins based on a block family error avoidance (BFEA) scan of the block. Based on determining the block is classified in the highest bin, the processing dev...