US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 23 for "Generating virtual blocks using partial good blocks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,227, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Generating virtual blocks using partial good blocks" was invented by Zhongguang Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Guang Hu (Mountain View, Calif.), Xiangang Luo (Fremont, Calif.), Jung Sheng Hoei (Newark, Calif.), Ting Luo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zhenming Zhou (San Jose, Calif.) and Jianmin Huang (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure configure a system component, such as a memory sub-system controller, to generate virtual or superblocks using multiple partial good blocks. The controller identifies a first partial good ...