US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 16 for "Closing block family based on soft and hard closure criteria" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,158, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Closing block family based on soft and hard closure criteria" was invented by Michael Sheperek (Longmont, Colo.), Larry J. Koudele (Erie, Colo.) and Steven S. Williams (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device initializes a block family associated with the memory device and a timer associated with the block family. In response to the timer reaching a soft closure value, the processing device performs a soft closure of the bloc...