US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Feb. 3 for "Plane balancing in a memory system" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,320, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Plane balancing in a memory system" was invented by John J. Kane (Westminster, Colo.), Byron D. Harris (Mead, Colo.) and Vivek Shivhare (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for plane balancing in a memory system are described. A memory system may select a memory die for writing a set of data. The memory die may include a plurality of planes each of which may include a respective plurality of blocks of memory cells. Based on selecting the memory die, the memory system may determine a first plane of the plurality of p...