US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Feb. 3 for "Write amplification penalty reporting" (Idaho, Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,321, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Write amplification penalty reporting" was invented by David Ebsen (Minnetonka, Minn.), Daniel J. Hubbard (Boise, Idaho), Kevin R Brandt (Boise, Idaho), Sampath Ratnam (San Jose, Calif.) and Brent Carl Byron (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure configure a memory sub-system controller to inform a host about write amplification penalty for host invalidations. The controller generates a virtual memory group comprising a portion of a memory component of a set of memory components. The controller computes a write amplif...