US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 26 for "Topology-based retirement in a memory system" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,726, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Topology-based retirement in a memory system" was invented by Chun S. Yeung (San Jose, Calif.), Deping He (Boise, Idaho) and Jonathan S. Parry (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for topology-based retirement in a memory system are described. In some examples, a memory system or memory device may be configured to evaluate error conditions relative to a physical or electrical organization of a memory array, which may support inferring the presence or absence of defects in one or more structures of a memory device. For...