US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 1 for "Wear leveling for non-volatile memory using data write counters" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,540, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Wear leveling for non-volatile memory using data write counters" was invented by Gil Golov (Backnang, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system has a controller (e.g., CPU, FPGA, or GPU) and recording segments in a non-volatile memory (e.g., a flash memory device) used by the controller to store data. The controller is configured to: maintain data write counters for the recording segments; select a first segment of the recording segments for recording data from a host system, wherein selecting the first segment comprises scanning the data wri...