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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 16, 2020
Applicant:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Inventors:

Sivagnanam Parthasarathy, Carlsbad, CA (US);

Terry M. Grunzke, Boise, ID (US);

Lucia Botticchio, Pescina, IT;

Walter Di Francesco, Avezzano, IT;

Vamshi K. Indavarapu, San Jose, CA (US);

Gianfranco Valeri, Pescina, IT;

Renato C. Padilla, Folsom, CA (US);

Ali Mohammadzadeh, Mountain View, CA (US);

Jung Sheng Hoei, Newark, CA (US);

Luca De Santis, Avezzano, IT;

Assignee:

Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0611 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1021 (2013.01); G06F 2212/2022 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to partially written block treatment. An example method comprises maintaining, internal to a memory device, a status of a last written page corresponding to a partially written block. Responsive to receiving, from a controller, a read request to a page of the partially written block, the example method can include determining, from page map information maintained internal to the memory device and from the status of the last written page, which of a number of different read trim sets to use to read the page of the partially written block corresponding to the read request.


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