ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,518, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Write booster pinning" was invented by Reshmi Basu (Boise, Idaho), Jonathan S. Parry (Boise, Idaho) and Yanhua Bi (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for write booster pinning are described. In some examples, a memory device may receive one or more commands (e.g., write commands) while operating in a first mode (e.g., a write booster mode). Some write commands may include an indication to pin the data to one or more SLCs. For example, a first write command may be associated with first data and a first indicator and a sec...