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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:
Oct. 15, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 18, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Gary F. Besinga, Boise, ID (US);

Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu, San Jose, CA (US);

Steven Michael Kientz, Westminster, CO (US);

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

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/34 (2006.01); G11C 16/10 (2006.01); G11C 16/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/3459 (2013.01); G11C 16/102 (2013.01); G11C 16/26 (2013.01); G11C 16/3404 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform operations including detecting a power up event of the memory device, responsive to detecting the power up event, selecting an open block of the memory device, wherein the open block comprises a set of pages, determining, based at least in part on an analysis of the set of pages, whether the open block is valid for programming, and responsive to determining that the open block is valid for programming, keeping the open block open for programming.


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