US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 8 for "Proximity based parity data management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,716, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Proximity based parity data management" was invented by Yu-Chung Lien (San Jose, Calif.), Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.) and Wei Wang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating parity data corresponding to a plurality of word lines coupled to blocks of a memory device and generating additional parity data for a block based on a physical location of the block. The method can further include performing a data recovery operation based on the parity data, the additional parity data, or a combination thereof."

The patent wa...