US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 23 for "Enabling multiple data capacity modes at a memory sub-system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,027, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Enabling multiple data capacity modes at a memory sub-system" was invented by Fangfang Zhu (San Jose, Calif.), Chih-Kuo Kao (Fremont, Calif.), Jiangli Zhu (San Jose, Calif.) and Ying Yu Tai (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination is made of whether a memory sub-system operates in a full capacity mode or a reduced capacity mode. The full capacity mode corresponds to accessing data residing at a set of memory devices via a number of physical data channels that corresponds to a number of logical data channels. The reduced capa...