ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,525, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatus with multi-deck read level management and methods for operating the same" was invented by Murong Lang (San Jose, Calif.), Tingjun Xie (Milpitas, Calif.), Fangfang Zhu (San Jose, Calif.), Jiangli Zhu (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses and systems related to managing read levels across multiple groupings or decks are described. The apparatus may include a read level management mechanism configured to controls or dynamically adjusts the read levels for the different groupings a...