ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,594, issued on July 1, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Background memory scan block selection" was invented by Alex J. Wesenberg (Erie, Colo.), Johnny A. Lam (Firestone, Colo.) and Michael Winterfeld (Firestone, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The memory sub-systems of the present disclosure selects, for memory scans, a memory block which has a highest page fill ratio. In one embodiment, the memory sub-system identifies a number of block stripes located on a logical unit (LU) identified by a logical unit number (LUN), where the LU is one of a plurality of LUs of a memory device. The sub-system determines a...