US Patent Issued to SK HYNIX on Dec. 2 for "Health monitoring of a memory device using in-NAND processing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,754, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SK HYNIX INC. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Health monitoring of a memory device using in-NAND processing" was invented by Pengfei Huang (San Jose, Calif.) and Fan Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for improving performance of a non-volatile memory are described. An example method includes receiving, by the circuitry, a read command from a firmware. Herein, the firmware is configured to perform a media scan of the memory block, and the media scan comprises the read command. The method further includes the circuitry, in response to the read command, r...