US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 30 for "Using a common pool of blocks for user data and a system data structure" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,243, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Using a common pool of blocks for user data and a system data structure" was invented by Kishore Kumar Muchherla (San Jose, Calif.), Kulachet Tanpairoj (Santa Clara, Calif.), Peter Feeley (Boise, Idaho), Sampath K. Ratnam (San Jose, Calif.) and Ashutosh Malshe (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes identifying, by a processing device, a common pool of blocks comprising a first plurality of blocks allocated to system data and a second plurality of blocks allocated to user data; determining whether user data has been written to ...