US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 30 for "Block family management for a virtual block" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,080, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Block family management for a virtual block" was invented by Peng Zhang (Los Altos, Calif.), Murong Lang (San Jose, Calif.), Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.) and Lei Lin (Freemont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example includes a method for performing a block family (BF) scan operation of a memory device. The method includes performing a first block family error avoidance (BFEA) scan via a controller on a wordline of a first fractional good block of a virtual block. The method also includes performing a second BFEA scan via the controller on a ...