Patents by Inventor Karl D. Schuh
Karl D. Schuh 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).
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Patent number: 12073873Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include allotting an initial amount of volatile memory to a write buffer. The write buffer stores batches of data to be written to non-volatile memory. In response to detecting a trigger to update the write buffer configuration, the volatile memory allotted to the write buffer is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Karl D. Schuh, William Richard Akin
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Patent number: 12067253Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include determining that a memory component to be subjected to a background data integrity scan does not currently satisfy an activity threshold. The background data integrity scan is delayed in response to determining memory component does not satisfy the activity threshold. In response to detecting a background data integrity scan trigger event, the background data integrity scan is performed.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Karl D. Schuh, William Richard Akin
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Patent number: 12057185Abstract: A method includes initiating a voltage calibration scan with respect to a block of a memory device, wherein the block is assigned to a first bin associated with a first set of read voltage offsets, and wherein the first bin is designated as a current bin, measuring a value of a data state metric for the block based on a second set of read voltage offsets associated with a second bin having an index value higher than the first bin, determining whether the value is less than a current value of the data state metric measured based on the first set of read voltage offsets, and in response to determining that the value is less than the current value, designating the second bin as the current bin.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: August 6, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Mustafa N. Kaynak, Sivagnanam Parthasarathy, Xiangang Luo, Peter Feeley, Devin M. Batutis, Jiangang Wu, Sampath K. Ratnam, Shane Nowell, Karl D. Schuh
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Patent number: 11995326Abstract: Method includes identifying, while programming sets of pages to dice of memory device, multiple sets of pages experiencing a variation in temporal voltage shift satisfying a threshold criterion; partitioning a set of pages of the multiple sets of pages into a set of fixed-length partitions; storing, in a metadata table, a value to indicate a size of each fixed-length partition; receiving a read operation directed at a page of the set of pages; determining, based on a logical block address of the read operation and on the value that indicates the size of each fixed-length partition, a partition of the set of fixed-length partitions to which the read operation corresponds; and searching within the metadata table to determine a block family to which the partition is assigned, wherein the searching is based on a first value associated with the set of pages and a second value associated with the partition.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Karl D. Schuh, Jiangang Wu, Mastafa N. Kaynak, Devin M. Batutis, Xiangang Luo
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Publication number: 20240086316Abstract: A system includes a memory device and a processing device communicatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is to write data to a number of groups of memory cells of the memory device in a physically non-contiguous manner. The processing device is further to track a sequence in which the number of groups of memory cells were written with the data. In response to a trigger event, the processing device is further to identify at least a portion of the number of groups of memory cells having data received over a predefined period preceding the trigger event based at least in part on the tracked sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Karl D. Schuh, Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu, Jiangang Wu, Kishore K. Muchherla
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Patent number: 11928347Abstract: A processing device of a memory sub-system is configured to sort a plurality of blocks of the memory device; identify, based on scanning of a first block at a first location of the plurality of sorted block, a first voltage bin associated with the first block; identify, based on scanning of a second block at a second location of the plurality of sorted blocks, a second voltage bin associated with the second block; and responsive to determining that the first voltage bin matches the second voltage bin, assign the first voltage bin to each block that is located between the first location of the plurality of sorted blocks and the second location of the plurality of sorted blocks.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Mustafa N Kaynak, Peter Feeley, Sampath K Ratnam, Shane Nowell, Sivagnanam Parthasarathy, Karl D Schuh, Jiangang Wu
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Patent number: 11886336Abstract: A system includes a memory device having multiple dice and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device receives a memory operation to program a set of pages of data across at least a subset of the plurality of dice. The processing device partitions the set of pages into a set of partitions and associates a first partition of the set of partitions with a first block family. The processing device assigns the first block family to a first threshold voltage offset bin and stores, in a metadata table, at least one bit to indicate that the set of pages is partitioned.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Karl D. Schuh, Jiangang Wu, Mustafa N. Kaynak, Devin M. Batutis, Xiangang Luo
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Patent number: 11861228Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include aggregating a plurality of memory status commands Each command of the plurality of memory status commands is assigned a corresponding bit on a memory interface. The plurality of memory status commands are sent in parallel as an aggregate status command to one or more memory components via the memory interface.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Karl D. Schuh, Ali Mohammadzadeh, Dheeraj Srinivasan, Daniel J. Hubbard, Luca Bert
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Patent number: 11847051Abstract: A system includes a memory device and a processing device coupled to the memory device. The processing device can determine a data rate from a first sensor and a data rate from a second sensor. The processing device can write a first set of data received from the first sensor at a first logical block address (LBA) in the memory device. The processing device can write a second set of data received from the second sensor and subsequent to the first set of data at a second LBA in the memory device. The processing device can remap the first LBA and the second LBA to be logically sequential LBAs. The second LBA can be associated with an offset from the first LBA and the offset can correspond to a data rate of the first sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Kishore K. Muchherla, Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu, Karl D. Schuh, Jiangang Wu, Gil Golov
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Patent number: 11841794Abstract: A system includes a memory device and a processing device communicatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is to write data to a number of groups of memory cells of the memory device in a physically non-contiguous manner. The processing device is further to track a sequence in which the number of groups of memory cells were written with the data. In response to a trigger event, the processing device is further to identify at least a portion of the number of groups of memory cells having data received over a predefined period preceding the trigger event based at least in part on the tracked sequence.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Karl D. Schuh, Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu, Jiangang Wu, Kishore K. Muchherla
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Patent number: 11836377Abstract: Data from a host system is received at a memory device, where the memory device includes a primary region to initially store the data received from the host system and one or more secondary regions to store data transferred from the primary region. A write operation is performed on one or more write units of the primary region with the data received from the host system, where a write unit of the primary region has lower density blocks than a write unit of the secondary region. Whether a subset of write units of the primary region corresponding to a pre-determined number of write units is written with at least a portion of the data received from the host system is determined. In response to determining that the subset of write units of the primary region is written, another write operation is performed on at least one write units of the secondary region with respective data of the subset of write units of the primary region.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Abdelhakim Alhussien, Ayberk Ozturk, Karl D. Schuh, Luca Bert
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Patent number: 11797216Abstract: A signal associated with performance of a memory operation can be applied to a memory cell of a first group of memory cells that have undergone PECs within a first range. The signal can have a first magnitude corresponding to a second range of PECs. Whether differences between a first target voltage and the signal and between a second target voltage and the applied signal are at least the threshold value can be determined. Responsive to determining that the differences are at least the threshold value, the first group of memory cells can be associated with a first calibration cluster and the signal having a second magnitude corresponding to a third range of PECs can be applied to a memory cell of a second group of memory cells that have undergone respective quantities of PECs within the second range.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Vamsi Pavan Rayaprolu, Giuseppina Puzzilli, Karl D. Schuh, Jeffrey S. McNeil, Jr., Kishore K. Muchherla, Ashutosh Malshe, Niccolo' Righetti
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Patent number: 11797435Abstract: A zone is loaded onto a first memory component of a storage system, wherein the zone comprises one or more regions of data blocks comprising a first plurality of logical block addresses (LBAs), and a snapshot of each of the one or more regions is stored on a second memory component of the storage system and is associated with a version identifier. A particular version identifier associated with a respective snapshot of a region is identified, and a set of journals stored on the second memory component are identified, wherein the set of journals comprise a second plurality of LBAs mapped to a second plurality of physical block addresses.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Daniel A. Boals, Byron D. Harris, Karl D. Schuh, Amy L. Wohlschlegel
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Patent number: 11783901Abstract: A system includes a memory device and a processing device. The processing device performs, at a first frequency, a first scan of a page of a block family that measures a first data state metric and identifies a specific bin corresponding to a measured value for the first data state metric. Processing device updates a bin, to which the page is assigned, to match the specific bin. Processing device performs, at a second frequency higher than the first frequency, a second scan of the page to measure a second data state metric for read operations performed using a threshold voltage offset value from each of multiple bins. Processing device updates the bin, to which the page is assigned for the specified die, to match a second bin having the threshold voltage offset value that yields a lowest read bit error rate from the second scan.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Shane Nowell, Mustafa N. Kaynak, Karl D. Schuh, Jiangang Wu, Devin M. Batutis, Xiangang Luo
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Patent number: 11762765Abstract: A zone is loaded onto a first memory component of a storage system, wherein the zone comprises one or more regions of data blocks comprising a first plurality of logical block addresses (LBAs), and a snapshot of each of the one or more regions is stored on a second memory component of the storage system and is associated with a version identifier. A particular version identifier associated with a respective snapshot of a region is identified, and a set of journals stored on the second memory component are identified, wherein the set of journals comprise a second plurality of LBAs mapped to a second plurality of physical block addresses.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Daniel A. Boals, Byron D. Harris, Karl D. Schuh, Amy L. Wohlschlegel
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Patent number: 11748013Abstract: An initial value of a power cycle count associated with the memory device is identified. The power cycle count is incremented responsive to detecting a powering up of the memory device. Responsive to programming a block residing in the memory device, the block is associated with a current block family associated with the memory device. A currently value of the power cycle count is determined. Responsive to determining that a difference between the initial value of the power cycle count and the current value of the power cycle count satisfies a predefined condition, the current block family is closed.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Mustafa N. Kaynak, Jiangang Wu, Sampath K. Ratnam, Sivagnanam Parthasarathy, Peter Feeley, Karl D. Schuh
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Publication number: 20230251779Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include determining that a memory component to be subjected to a background data integrity scan does not currently satisfy an activity threshold. The background data integrity scan is delayed in response to determining memory component does not satisfy the activity threshold. In response to detecting a background data integrity scan trigger event, the background data integrity scan is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Karl D. Schuh, William Richard Akin
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Patent number: 11698864Abstract: A processing device in a memory sub-system sends a program command to the memory device to cause the memory device to initiate a program operation on a corresponding wordline and sub-block of a memory array of the memory device. The processing device further receives a request to perform a read operation on data stored on the wordline and sub-block of the memory array, sends a suspend command to the memory device to cause the memory device to suspend the program operation, reads data corresponding to the read operation from a page cache of the memory device, and sends a resume command to the memory device to cause the memory device to resume the program operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Abdelhakim Alhussien, Jiangang Wu, Karl D. Schuh, Qisong Lin, Jung Sheng Hoei
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Publication number: 20230205455Abstract: Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include receiving a request to perform an operation in memory. A subdivision of the memory to which the request is directed is determined. A command completion time based upon a command type for the operation and which subdivision of the memory to which the request is directed is determined. A command is sent to the memory for the operation. A request is sent to the memory for a status of the command based upon the determined command completion time.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Karl D. Schuh, Daniel J. Hubbard
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Publication number: 20230205438Abstract: A processing device of a memory sub-system is configured to sort a plurality of blocks of the memory device; identify, based on scanning of a first block at a first location of the plurality of sorted block, a first voltage bin associated with the first block; identify, based on scanning of a second block at a second location of the plurality of sorted blocks, a second voltage bin associated with the second block; and responsive to determining that the first voltage bin matches the second voltage bin, assign the first voltage bin to each block that is located between the first location of the plurality of sorted blocks and the second location of the plurality of sorted blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Kishore Kumar Muchherla, Mustafa N. Kaynak, Peter Feeley, Sampath K. Ratnam, Shane Nowell, Sivagnanam Parthasarathy, Karl D. Schuh, Jiangang Wu