US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 30 for "Data age and validity-based memory management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,052, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Data age and validity-based memory management" was invented by Ashutosh Malshe (Fremont, Calif.), Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu (San Jose, Calif.) and Kishore K. Muchherla (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining respective valid translation unit counts of a block of non-volatile memory cells over a period of time, determining a rate of change of the respective valid translation unit counts of the block of non-volatile memory cells over the period of time, comparing the rate of change of the valid translation unit counts to ...