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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:
Jul. 18, 2023

Filed:

Aug. 23, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Paolo Papa, Naples, IT;

Luigi Esposito, Piano di Sorrento, IT;

Massimo Iaculo, San Marco Evangelista, IT;

Eric Kwok Fung Yuen, Dublin, CA (US);

Gerard J. Perdaems, Boise, ID (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G11C 16/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/10 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0643 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 11/079 (2013.01); G06F 11/0727 (2013.01); G06F 11/0778 (2013.01); G11C 16/0483 (2013.01);
Abstract

Devices and techniques for managing flash memory are disclosed herein. A memory controller may receive a first program request comprising first host data to be written to the flash memory. The flash memory may comprise a number of storage units with each storage unit comprising a number of storage sub-units. If the first host data is less than a remainder threshold, the memory controller may generate a first program data unit comprising the first host data and first log data describing the flash memory. The memory controller may program the program data unit to the first storage unit of the flash memory, where the first log data is written to a first storage sub-unit of the number of storage sub-unit. The memory controller may also store an indication that the first storage sub-unit is invalid.


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