US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 21 for "Partial block handling protocol in a non-volatile memory device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,189, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Partial block handling protocol in a non-volatile memory device" was invented by Zhongguang Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Tingjun Xie (Milpitas, Calif.) and Murong Lang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device in a memory sub-system logically closes a block of a memory device to prevent additional program operations from being performed on the block. The processing device further causes one or more wordlines of the block to be programmed with padding data. The one or more wordlines are adjacent to a last wordline of the block programm...