US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 16 for "Valid data identification for garbage collection" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,173, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Valid data identification for garbage collection" was invented by David Aaron Palmer (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for valid data identification for garbage collection are described. In connection with writing data to a block of memory cells, a memory system may identify a portion of a logical address space that includes a logical address for the data. The memory system may set a bit of a bitmap, which may indicate that the block includes data having a logical address within a portion of the logical address s...