ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,770, issued on July 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Adaptive block mapping" was invented by Alberto Sassara (Naples, Italy), Giuseppe D'Eliseo (Caserta, Italy), Lalla Fatima Drissi (Ottaviano, Italy), Luigi Esposito (Piano di Sorrento, Italy), Paolo Papa (Naples, Italy), Salvatore Del Prete (Grumo Nevano, Italy), Xiangang Luo (Fremont, Calif.) and Xiaolai Zhu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for adaptive block mapping are described. In some examples, a first superblock and a second superblock may be established across one or more dice of a memory device. The superblocks ...