US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 7 for "Hybrid wear leveling for in-place data replacement media" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,702, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Hybrid wear leveling for in-place data replacement media" was invented by Ying Yu Tai (Mountain View, Calif.), Jiangli Zhu (San Jose, Calif.) and Ning Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory sub-system periodically performs a first wear leveling operation using a direct mapping function on a data management unit of a memory component in the memory sub-system at a first frequency. The memory sub-system further periodically performs a second wear leveling operation using indirect mapping on a group of data management units of the memory...