ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,631, issued on June 3, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Suspension during a multi-plane write procedure" was invented by Caixia Yang (Boise, Idaho) and Deping He (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for suspension during a multi-plane write procedure are described. A memory system may perform a multi-plane write procedure by writing to a set of planes in parallel. Upon detecting a defective plane in the set of planes, the memory system may suspend writing to the defective plane until writing to the other planes in the set of planes is finished. The memory system may then res...