US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Feb. 17 for "Power-off monitor for relaxed block retirement in a memory sub-system" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,424, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Power-off monitor for relaxed block retirement in a memory sub-system" was invented by Fanqi Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kevin R. Brandt (Boise, Idaho), Zhenlei Shen (Milpitas, Calif.), Tingjun Xie (Milpitas, Calif.), Yang Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Jiangli Zhu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device in a memory sub-system determines a total power-off time of a memory sub-system and identifies a configurable power-off time threshold for the memory sub-system. The processing device determines whether the total power-off time satisf...