US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 8 for "Program failure handling in non-volatile memory systems" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,708, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Program failure handling in non-volatile memory systems" was invented by Nitul Gohain (Bangalore, India) and Chao-Han Cheng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for program failure handling in non-volatile memory systems are described. The memory system may identify a program failure associated with writing data to a first address of a first block of memory cells. The memory system may move data from the first block to a second block of memory cells based on identifying the program failure at the first address. Th...