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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:
May. 06, 2025

Filed:

Jan. 18, 2023
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Michael Sheperek, Longmont, CO (US);

Larry J. Koudele, Erie, CO (US);

Bruce A. Liikanen, Berthoud, CO (US);

Steven Michael Kientz, Westminster, CO (US);

Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2005.12); G01K 3/04 (2005.12); G06F 1/3228 (2018.12); G06F 1/324 (2018.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/064 (2012.12); G01K 3/04 (2012.12); G06F 1/3228 (2012.12); G06F 1/324 (2012.12); G06F 3/0604 (2012.12); G06F 3/0659 (2012.12); G06F 3/0679 (2012.12);
Abstract

A system includes a memory device and a processing device to initialize a block family associated with the memory device and a timer at initialization of the block family. The processing device further stores, in non-volatile memory of the memory device, a value of the timer before powering down the system while the block family is still open. The processing device further detects a power on of the system and measures a data state metric associated with one or more memory cell of a page of the memory device that is associated with the block family. The processing device further compares a level of the data state metric to a temporal voltage shift function to estimate a time after program value of the page and increments the value of the timer, restored from the non-volatile memory, based on the time after program value.


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