ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,101, issued on March 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Read source determination" was invented by Tom V. Geukens (Longmont, Colo.) and Byron D. Harris (Mead, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for read source determination are provided. One example apparatus can include a controller configured to determine a source for read requests and to direct read requests for a first portion of data to a first block of single level memory cells in response to an amount of a second portion of data written to a second block of single level memory cells being less than a threshold amount, and dir...