ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,336, issued on May 13, was assigned to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. (Hubei, China).

"Media scan in memory systems" was invented by Hua Tan (Wuhan, China), Xing Wang (Wuhan, China), Yaolong Gao (Wuhan, China), Fanya Bi (Wuhan, China), Zhe Sun (Wuhan, China) and Bo Yu (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure involves methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage media for media scan in a memory system. In one example, a method for a memory system includes receiving commands from a host coupled to the memory system, wherein the memory system includes a memory device, the memory device includes a ...