US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Nov. 4 for "Open block management in memory devices" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,649, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Open block management in memory devices" was invented by Michael Winterfeld (Firestone, Colo.) and Juane Li (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for tracking open blocks in a memory device includes partitioning, by a memory sub-system controller, a storage region in the memory device into a plurality of channels, each channel including a plurality of planesets, and each planeset comprising a plurality of blocksets. The method further includes distributing evenly between the plurality of channels a plurality of active zones ready for a w...