US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 10 for "Selectively using heroic data recovery methods in a memory device" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,769, issued on June 10, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Selectively using heroic data recovery methods in a memory device" was invented by Curtis W. Egan (Brighton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A block storing corrupt data is detected. Based on detecting the block storing corrupt data, threshold voltage (VT) distribution data corresponding to the block is accessed. The VT distribution data comprises one or more VT distribution measurements corresponding to the block. The VT distribution data corresponding to the block is compared with reference VT distribution data. The reference VT distribution data c...