US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Feb. 3 for "Management of unmapped allocation units of a memory sub-system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,398, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Management of unmapped allocation units of a memory sub-system" was invented by Tingjun Xie (Milpitas, Calif.), Zhengang Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhenlei Shen (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a memory component and a processing device. The processing device can receive an indication to remove a group of memory cells of a memory sub-system from a logical address space that is used to access the memory sub-system. The processing device can, responsive to receiving the indication, remove the group of memory cells of the ...