ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,451, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Sacrificial block pool" was invented by Giuseppe Cariello (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for sacrificial block pool are described. For instance, a memory device may allocate a first pool of blocks and a second pool of blocks. The first pool of blocks may be associated with access operations in which each memory cell stores a single bit and the second pool of blocks may be associated with operations where each memory cell stores a single bit or multiple bits. The memory device may perform access operations accord...