US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 16 for "Deck-based erase function" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,950, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Deck-based erase function" was invented by Nikhil Birgade (Telangana, India) and Uday Bhasker V. Vudugandla (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for a deck-based erase function are described. A memory system may perform alternating erase operations and write operations on a virtual block configured with blocks constructed from half good blocks (HGBs). For example, the memory system may erase and subsequently write data to a first subset of HGBs associated with one or more memory dies of the memory system, before e...