US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Feb. 3 for "Power management for memory devices with partially good blocks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,311, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Power management for memory devices with partially good blocks" was invented by Yu-Chung Lien (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses include determining that a portion of a target block of a memory operation being performed by a memory division is retired. A partially good block power value is retrieved in response to determining that the portion is retired. A total power estimate is determined using the partially good block power value. Performance of a suboperation of the mem...