US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Nov. 4 for "Data block refresh during read access" (Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,660, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Data block refresh during read access" was invented by Luca Porzio (Casalnuovo, Italy), Ting Luo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ciro Feliciano (Casandrino, Italy) and Giuseppe D'Eliseo (Caserta, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data block refresh during read access are described. In some instances, when an access command (e.g., a read command) is received, a memory system may determine if the associated block is a PSA block. If the block is PSA block, its data may be provided to a host system to satisfy the read command the blo...