ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,024, issued on June 10, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Block conversion to preserve memory capacity" was invented by Vinay Vijendra Kumar Lakshmi (Karnataka, India) and Vijaya Janarthanam (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for block conversion to preserve memory capacity are described. A device may perform a quantity of one or more access operations on a block that includes a set of memory cells configured as single-level cells each of which is configured for storing multiple bits. After performing the quantity of one or more access operations on the block the devic...