ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,750, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Effective access count based media management" was invented by Vincenzo Reina (Munich) and Francesco Lupo (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining respective health characteristic values of blocks of non-volatile memory cells, determining, based on the respective health characteristic values and at least one effective health factor of the blocks of the non-volatile memory cells, effective respective health characteristic values of the blocks of non-volatile memory cells, and based on the effective respective health characterist...