US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Jan. 27 for "Half good block handling with defective deck pre-programing in a memory sub-system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,068, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Half good block handling with defective deck pre-programing in a memory sub-system" was invented by Hanping Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Zhongguang Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Christina Papagianni (San Jose, Calif.), Yu-Chung Lien (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A defective portion of a block of a memory device is identified. The defective portion of the block is programmed with a pre-programming voltage pattern. The pre-programming voltage pattern is programmed to the defective portion of the block before a pr...