US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Nov. 4 for "Temporary parity buffer allocation for zones in a parity group" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,818, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Temporary parity buffer allocation for zones in a parity group" was invented by Kishore Kumar Muchherla (Fremont, Calif.), David Scott Ebsen (Minnetonka, Minn.), Akira Goda (Tokyo), Jonathan S. Parry (Boise, Idaho), Vivek Shivhare (Milpitas, Calif.) and Suresh Rajgopal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses include allocating a temporary parity buffer to a parity group. A write command is received that includes user data and is directed to a portion of memory included in a zone which is included in the parity group. A me...