US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 6 for "Open block family duration limited by time and temperature" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,099, issued on May 6, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Open block family duration limited by time and temperature" was invented by Michael Sheperek (Longmont, Colo.), Larry J. Koudele (Erie, Colo.), Bruce A. Liikanen (Berthoud, Colo.), Steven Michael Kientz (Westminster, Colo.) and Kishore Kumar Muchherla (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory device and a processing device to initialize a block family associated with the memory device and a timer at initialization of the block family. The processing device further stores, in non-volatile memory of the memory device, a value ...