US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 21 for "Selection of erase policy in a memory device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,154, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Selection of erase policy in a memory device" was invented by Yu-Chung Lien (San Jose, Calif.), Zhongguang Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Peng Zhang (Los Altos, Calif.) and Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform operations including: identifying a block of the memory device, the block spanning over a plurality of decks; determining whether a set of memory cells of the memory device is disposed in a first deck of the block or a ...