US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 25 for "Partial block handling in a non-volatile memory device" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,916, issued on March 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Partial block handling in a non-volatile memory device" was invented by Zhongguang Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Nicola Ciocchini (Boise, Idaho), Zhenlei Shen (Milpitas, Calif.), Charles See Yeung Kwong (Redwood City, Calif.), Murong Lang (San Jose, Calif.), Ugo Russo (Boise, Idaho) and Niccolo' Righetti (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device in a memory sub-system initiates a partial block handling protocol for a closed block of a memory device, the block comprising a plurality of wordlines. The processing device further sends a firs...