ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,891, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Multi-level cell maintenance operations" was invented by Giuseppe Cariello (Boise, Idaho), Nitul Gohain (Karnataka, India) and Jameer Mulani (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for multi-level cell maintenance operations are described. A controller of a memory device may perform a two-portion maintenance operation in order to transfer data from a first block of memory cells to a second block of memory cells. For example, during a first portion of the maintenance operation, the controller may read first data from th...