Patents by Inventor James Fitzpatrick

James Fitzpatrick has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12650789
    Abstract: Control logic in a memory device receives a request to read data from a memory array of a memory device, the request comprising an indication of a segment of the memory array where the data is stored, and determines whether a write temperature associated with the data is stored in a flag byte corresponding to the segment of the memory array. Responsive to determining that the write temperature associated with the data is stored in the flag byte, the control logic determines a cross-temperature for the data based on the write temperature and a read temperature at a time when the request to read the data is received, determines a program/erase cycle count associated with the segment of the memory array, and determines, based on the cross-temperature and the program/erase cycle count, whether to perform a corrective action to calibrate a read voltage level to be applied to the memory array to read the data from the segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Violante Moschiano, Akira Goda, Jeffrey S. McNeil, Jung Sheng Hoei, Sivagnanam Parthasarathy, James Fitzpatrick, Patrick R. Khayat
  • Publication number: 20260155189
    Abstract: A memory sub-system configured to read soft bit data by adjusting the read voltage applied to read hard bit data from memory cells. For example, in response to a read command identifying a group of memory cells, a memory device is to: read the group of memory cells using a first voltage to generate hard bit data indicating statuses of the memory cells subjected to the first voltage; change (e.g., through boosted modulation) the first voltage, currently being applied to the group of memory cells, to a second voltage and then to a third voltage; reading the group of memory cells at the second voltage and at the third voltage to generate soft bit data (e.g., via an exclusive or (XOR) of the results of reading the group of memory cells at the second voltage and at the third voltage).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2026
    Publication date: June 4, 2026
    Inventors: Sivagnanam Parthasarathy, James Fitzpatrick, Patrick Robert Khayat, AbdelHakim S. Alhussien
  • Patent number: 12646573
    Abstract: Processing logic in a memory device receives a calibration scan command associated with the memory device. In response to the calibration scan command, execution of a set of read operations at a plurality of read voltage levels on the memory device is caused. In response to the calibration scan command, a set of bit counts is identified, where each bit count of the set of bit counts corresponds to a respective bin of a set of bins associated with the plurality of read voltage levels. Based on the bit count corresponding to each bin of the set of bins, a bin having a lowest bit count is identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric N. Lee, Violante Moschiano, Jeffrey S. McNeil, James Fitzpatrick, Sivagnanam Parthasarathy, Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Patrick R. Khayat
  • Publication number: 20260121665
    Abstract: A memory sub-system configured to: measure a plurality of sets of signal and noise characteristics of a group of memory cells in a memory device; determine a plurality of optimized read voltages of the group of memory cells from the plurality of sets of signal and noise characteristics respectively; generate features from the plurality of sets of signal and noise characteristics, including at least one compound feature generated from the plurality of sets of signal and noise characteristics; generate, using the features, a classification of a bit error rate of data retrievable from the group of memory cells; and control an operation to read the group of memory cells based on the classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2025
    Publication date: April 30, 2026
    Inventors: Sivagnanam Parthasarathy, James Fitzpatrick, Patrick Robert Khayat, AbdelHakim S. Alhussien
  • Patent number: 12613805
    Abstract: A memory sub-system configured to manage programming mode transitions to accommodate a constant size of data transfer between a host system and a memory sub-system. The memory sub-system counts single-page transitions of atomic programming modes performed within a memory sub-system and determines whether or not to allow any two-page transition of atomic programming modes based on whether an odd or even number of the single-page transitions have been counted. When an odd number of the transitions have been counted, no two-page transition is allowed; otherwise, one or more two-page transitions are allowable. A next transition of atomic programming modes is selected based on the determining of whether or not to allow any two-page transitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay Subbarao, James Fitzpatrick
  • Patent number: 12608275
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus related to a multi-level error correction architecture used for copying data in memory devices. In one approach, user data is stored in the first partition of a non-volatile memory. First error correction code data is generated for the user data and stored with the user data in the first partition. Second error correction code data is generated for the user data and stored outside the first partition. The second error correction code data provides an increased error correcting capability that is compatible with the error correction algorithm used with the first error correction code data. A copyback operation is used to copy the user data and the first error correction code, but not the second error correction code, to a second partition of the non-volatile memory. The second error correction code can be selectively used if there is a need to recover portions of the user data stored in the first partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mustafa N. Kaynak, Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Sivagnanam Parthasarathy, James Fitzpatrick, Mark A. Helm
  • Publication number: 20260080948
    Abstract: A memory device to search for a voltage optimized to read a group of memory cells. In response to a read command, the memory device measures first signal and noise characteristics of the memory cells by reading the memory cells at first test voltages. Based on the first signal and noise characteristics, the memory device may determine that the optimized read voltage is outside of a range of the first test voltages. In response, the memory device determines, based on the first signal and noise characteristics, an estimate of the optimized read voltage, and measures second signal and noise characteristics by reading at second test voltages configured around the estimate. The optimized read voltage can be computed based at least in part on the second signal and noise characteristics. The memory device retrieves data from the memory cells using the optimized read voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2025
    Publication date: March 19, 2026
    Inventors: Patrick Robert Khayat, James Fitzpatrick, AbdelHakim S. Alhussien, Sivagnanam Parthasarathy
  • Patent number: 12579027
    Abstract: A system can include a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform operations including storing a set of user data and multiple portions of error correction data. The operations can also include, responsive to an expiration of a first threshold amount of time after storing the set of user data, performing, using the third portion of the error correction data, a first error correction operation, on each of the set of user data, the first portion, and the second portion, and rewriting, on the memory device, the set of user data, the first portion, and the second portion. The operations can further include deleting the third portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Dung Viet Nguyen, James Fitzpatrick, Huai-Yuan Tseng
  • Publication number: 20260031156
    Abstract: A processing device in a memory sub-system detects an occurrence of a data integrity check trigger event and, responsive to the occurrence of the data integrity check trigger event, identifies a memory die of a plurality of memory dies. The processing device further associates each segment of the identified memory die with a respective group of a plurality of groups, each group representing one or more of a plurality of error mechanisms, and determines one or more respective adaptive scan frequencies for the identified memory die based on statistics of the segments associated with each respective group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2025
    Publication date: January 29, 2026
    Inventors: Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu, Christopher M. Smitchger, James Fitzpatrick, Patrick R. Khayat, Sampath K. Ratnam
  • Patent number: 12537064
    Abstract: A memory sub-system configured to read soft bit data by adjusting the read voltage applied to read hard bit data from memory cells. For example, in response to a read command identifying a group of memory cells, a memory device is to: read the group of memory cells using a first voltage to generate hard bit data indicating statuses of the memory cells subjected to the first voltage; change (e.g., through boosted modulation) the first voltage, currently being applied to the group of memory cells, to a second voltage and then to a third voltage; reading the group of memory cells at the second voltage and at the third voltage to generate soft bit data (e.g., via an exclusive or (XOR) of the results of reading the group of memory cells at the second voltage and at the third voltage).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sivagnanam Parthasarathy, James Fitzpatrick, Patrick Robert Khayat, AbdelHakim S. Alhussien
  • Publication number: 20260024563
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed including a memory device comprising a memory array and control logic, operatively coupled with the memory array. The control logic can performing a set of strobe reads on a set of target cells of a plurality of memory cells in the memory array and identify, by performing a lookup of a reference table, at least one strobe read, from the set of strobe reads, for generating semi-soft bit data based on cell state information of a group of adjacent cells. For a target cell of the set of target cells, the semi-soft bit data is generated based on data obtained from the at least one strobe read.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2025
    Publication date: January 22, 2026
    Inventors: Phong Sy Nguyen, Patrick R. Khayat, Jeffrey S. McNeil, Dung Viet Nguyen, Kishore Kumar Muchherla, James Fitzpatrick
  • Patent number: 12530303
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for a multi-tier cache for a memory system are described. A memory device may include memory cells configured as cache storage and memory cells configured as main storage. The cache storage may be a multi-tier cache and may include sets of different types of memory cells or memory cells operated as different types of memory cells, with different latencies, storage densities, or other performance characteristics. The memory device or a controller or host system for the memory device may determine the set of memory cells within the multi-tier cache to which a set of data is to be written, or may move the set of data within the multi-tier cache or between the multi-tier cache and the main storage, based on one or more of a variety of performance considerations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2026
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kulachet Tanpairoj, Nadav Grosz, James Fitzpatrick, Jianmin Huang
  • Patent number: 12517655
    Abstract: A memory device includes an array of memory cells associated with a plurality of wordlines and control logic operatively coupled with the array of memory cells. The control logic can receive a program command comprising a digital value indicating that a physical address of the program command corresponds to a retired wordline of the plurality of wordlines. The control logic can generate dummy data in response to detecting the digital value within the program command. The memory logic can cause the dummy data to be programmed to memory cells that are selectively coupled to the retired wordline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Binfet, Violante Moschiano, James Fitzpatrick, Kishore Kumar Muccherla, Jeffrey S. McNeil, Phong Sy Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12512857
    Abstract: A memory sub-system configured to: measure a plurality of sets of signal and noise characteristics of a group of memory cells in a memory device; determine a plurality of optimized read voltages of the group of memory cells from the plurality of sets of signal and noise characteristics respectively; generate features from the plurality of sets of signal and noise characteristics, including at least one compound feature generated from the plurality of sets of signal and noise characteristics; generate, using the features, a classification of a bit error rate of data retrievable from the group of memory cells; and control an operation to read the group of memory cells based on the classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sivagnanam Parthasarathy, James Fitzpatrick, Patrick Robert Khayat, AbdelHakim S. Alhussien
  • Publication number: 20250387757
    Abstract: The invention discloses a dope solution for membrane fabrication comprising a blend of TEP with NMP as a solvent system in a process to make PVDF membranes, where PVDF resin comprises a homopolymer resin, or a copolymer of VDF and at least one of hexafluoropropylene, trifluoroethylene, chlorotrifluoroethylene, or a tetrafluoropropene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Inventors: Walter P. KOSAR, James FITZPATRICK, Gregory S. O'BRIEN, Anthony BONNET
  • Patent number: 12488839
    Abstract: A memory device to search for a voltage optimized to read a group of memory cells. In response to a read command, the memory device measures first signal and noise characteristics of the memory cells by reading the memory cells at first test voltages. Based on the first signal and noise characteristics, the memory device may determine that the optimized read voltage is outside of a range of the first test voltages. In response, the memory device determines, based on the first signal and noise characteristics, an estimate of the optimized read voltage, and measures second signal and noise characteristics by reading at second test voltages configured around the estimate. The optimized read voltage can be computed based at least in part on the second signal and noise characteristics. The memory device retrieves data from the memory cells using the optimized read voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Robert Khayat, James Fitzpatrick, AbdelHakim S. Alhussien, Sivagnanam Parthasarathy
  • Patent number: 12456502
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed including a memory device comprising a memory array and control logic, operatively coupled with the memory array. The control logic can perform operations comprising causing a read operation to be initiated with respect to a set of target cells of the memory array; obtaining, for a respective group of adjacent cells, respective cell state information; performing a set of strobe reads on the set of target cells; and generating, for a target cell of the set of target cells, semi-soft bit data based on the respective cell state information of the respective group of adjacent cells and on data obtained from a first strobe read and a second strobe read of the set of strobe reads performed on the target cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Phong Sy Nguyen, Patrick R. Khayat, Jeffrey S. McNeil, Dung Viet Nguyen, Kishore Kumar Muchherla, James Fitzpatrick
  • Patent number: 12451197
    Abstract: A processing device in a memory sub-system detects an occurrence of a data integrity check trigger event and, responsive to the occurrence of the data integrity check trigger event, identifies a memory die of a plurality of memory dies. The processing device further associates each segment of the identified memory die with a respective group of a plurality of groups, each group representing one or more of a plurality of error mechanisms, and determines one or more respective adaptive scan frequencies for the identified memory die based on statistics of the segments associated with each respective group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2025
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu, Christopher M. Smitchger, James Fitzpatrick, Patrick R. Khayat, Sampath K. Ratnam
  • Publication number: 20250284589
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed including a memory device and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device can perform operations comprising performing a data integrity check on a first set of memory cells to obtain a data integrity metric value; responsive to determining that the data integrity metric value satisfies a threshold criterion, determining whether a threshold number of second sets of memory cells, configured to store the first number of bits per memory cell, are available for a memory management operation; and responsive to determining that the threshold number of second sets of memory cells are available, causing the memory device to perform the memory management operation by copying data from the first set of memory cells and from the threshold number of second sets of memory cells to a third set of memory cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2025
    Publication date: September 11, 2025
    Inventors: Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu, Mustafa N. Kaynak, Sivagnanam Parthasarathy, Patrick Khayat, Sampath Ratnam, Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Jiangang Wu, James Fitzpatrick
  • Publication number: 20250285682
    Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include an adaptive pre-read manager for controlling pre-reads of the memory device. The adaptive pre-read manager receives a first set of data bits for programming to memory. The adaptive pre-read manager performing a first pass of programming including a first subset of data bits from the set of data bits. The adaptive pre-read manager compares a set of threshold operating differences to a set of differences between multiple operating conditions during the first pass of programming and current operating conditions. The adaptive pre-read manager performs an internal pre-read of the programmed first subset of data bits. The adaptive pre-read manager performs a second pass of programming using the internal pre-read and a second subset of data bits from the first set of data bits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2025
    Publication date: September 11, 2025
    Inventors: Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Huai-Yuan Tseng, Akira Goda, Dung V. Nguyen, Giovanni Maria Paolucci, James Fitzpatrick, Eric N. Lee, Dave Scott Ebsen, Tomoharu Tanaka