US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 29 for "Temporal metric driven media management scheme" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,098, issued on July 29, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Temporal metric driven media management scheme" was invented by Luca Bert (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A victim management unit (MU) for performing a media management operation is identified. The victim MU stores valid data. A source cursor associated with the victim MU is identified from an ordered set of cursors. A target cursor following the source cursor in the ordered set of cursors referencing one or more available MUs is identified. In response to determining that the source cursor is a last cursor in the ordered set of cursors,...