ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,530, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Tracking and refreshing state metrics in memory sub-systems" was invented by Michael Sheperek (Longmont, Colo.), Bruce A. Liikanen (Berthoud, Colo.) and Steven Michael Kientz (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system that comprises a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform operations that include, responsive to detecting a triggering event, selecting a family of memory blocks of the memory device, the selected family being associated with a set of bins, each bin associate...