ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,658, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Error management of memory devices" was invented by Emanuele Confalonieri (Segrate, Italy), Marco Sforzin (Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy), Daniele Balluchi (Cernusco sul Navigli, Italy), Danilo Caraccio (Milan), Ravi Kiran Gummaluri (Freemont, Calif.) and Stephen Scott Pawlowski (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media management operation is initiated on a plurality of management units of one or more memory devices managed by the controller. A first error status and second error status associated with a read stage of the media management ...