US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 23 for "Open block family duration limited by temperature variation" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,013, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Open block family duration limited by temperature variation" was invented by Michael Sheperek (Longmont, Colo.), Larry J. Koudele (Erie, Colo.), Bruce A. Liikanen (Berthoud, Colo.) and Steven Michael Kientz (Westminster, 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. In some embodiments, the processing device accesses a matrix of threshold voltage offset bins, where a first dimension of the matrix is temperature and a second dimension of the matrix is a temporal v...