US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 8 for "Selective codeword media scan system" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,715, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Selective codeword media scan system" was invented by Wen Pan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yang Liu (Melissa, Texas), Seungjune Jeon (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wei Wang (Dublin, Calif.), Charles S. Kwong (Redwood City, Calif.), Jiangli Zhu (San Jose, Calif.) and Juane Li (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a media scan operation in a memory device is described herein. The method includes initiating the media scan operation via a controller. The method also includes selecting one or more codewords that is a proper subset of a plu...