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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:
Jan. 17, 2023

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Kishore K. Muchherla, Fremont, CA (US);

Niccolo′ Righetti, Boise, ID (US);

Jeffrey S. McNeil, Jr., Nampa, ID (US);

Akira Goda, Setagaya, JP;

Todd A. Marquart, Boise, ID (US);

Mark A. Helm, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Gil Golov, Backnang, DE;

Jeremy Binfet, Boise, ID (US);

Carmine Miccoli, Boise, ID (US);

Giuseppina Puzzilli, Boise, ID (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes performing a copyback operation comprising transferring, using an internal processing device, user data and header data corresponding to the user data from a first block of memory in a memory device to a register in the memory device, decoupling the user data from the header data, performing an error correction code (ECC) operation on updated header data using an external processing device, transferring, via the external processing device, the updated header data to the register, and transferring the user data and the updated header data from the register to a second block of memory in the memory device.


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