US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on April 29 for "Host data storage scan data retention rating" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,982, issued on April 29, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Host data storage scan data retention rating" was invented by Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Thomas Lentz (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory device containing multiple dies that each have multiple pages, and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform various operations including scanning a group of pages residing on a die and determining a value of one data state metric and a corresponding value of another state metric. The operations can also include recording a set of...