US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 23 for "Portioned erase operation for a memory system" (Indian, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,987, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Portioned erase operation for a memory system" was invented by Sridhar Prudviraj Gunda (Bangalore, India), Amiya Banerjee (Bangalore, India), Ritesh Tiwari (Bangalore, India) and Shreesha Prabhu (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for an erase operation for a memory system are described. The memory system may perform, on a block of memory cells, a first portion of an erase operation. After performing the first portion of the erase operation, the memory system may receive a write command to write data to the block of m...