US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 30 for "Padding cached data with valid data for memory flush commands" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,258, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Padding cached data with valid data for memory flush commands" was invented by Kishore Kumar Muchherla (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan S. Parry (Boise, Idaho) and Akira Goda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A victim management unit (MU) for performing a media management operation is identified. The victim MU stores valid data in a first memory device of a plurality of memory devices. A cached data item on a second memory device of the plurality of memory devices is identified. A valid-to-invalid ratio of the victim MU is compared to a threshold value....