ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,498, issued on July 1, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Data erase operations for a memory system" was invented by Kevin R. Brandt (Boise, Idaho), Adam J. Hieb (Meridian, Idaho), Jonathan Tanguy (Boise, Idaho) and Preston A. Thomson (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data erase operation is performed on the memory system. The directed data erase operation performed on the memory system erases blocks of the memory device including blocks that are indicated as not including user data. In some embodiments, a data erase operation may be performed on a memory system to erase those groups of memory cells (...