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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2020
Applicant:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey L. McVay, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Daniel J. Hubbard, Boise, ID (US);
Robert W. Strong, Folsom, CA (US);
Michael B. Danielson, Georgetown, TX (US);
Jonathan Tanguy, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1032 (2013.01); G06F 2212/152 (2013.01); G06F 2212/214 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7205 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for directed sanitization of memory. One example method comprises, responsive to receiving a sanitization command, performing a deterministic garbage collection operation on a memory, wherein performing the deterministic garbage collection operation results in physical erasure of all invalid data stored on the memory without losing valid data stored on the memory.