Patents by Inventor Michael G. McNeeley

Michael G. McNeeley 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: 11487612
    Abstract: A variety of applications can include apparatus and/or methods that provide parity protection to data spread over multiple memory devices of a memory system. Parity is stored in a buffer, where the parity is generated from portions of data written to a page having a different portion of the page in a portion of each plane of one or more planes of the multiple memory devices. Parity is stored in the buffer for each page. In response to a determination that a transfer criterion is satisfied, the parity data in the buffer is transferred from the buffer to a temporary block. After programming data into the block to close the block, a verification of the block with respect to data errors is conducted. In response to passing the verification, the temporary block can be released for use in a next data write operation. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Harish Reddy Singidi, Xiangang Luo, Preston Allen Thomson, Michael G. McNeeley
  • Publication number: 20200409789
    Abstract: A variety of applications can include apparatus and/or methods that provide parity protection to data spread over multiple memory devices of a memory system. Parity is stored in a buffer, where the parity is generated from portions of data written to a page having a different portion of the page in a portion of each plane of one or more planes of the multiple memory devices. Parity is stored in the buffer for each page. In response to a determination that a transfer criterion is satisfied, the parity data in the buffer is transferred from the buffer to a temporary block. After programming data into the block to close the block, a verification of the block with respect to data errors is conducted. In response to passing the verification, the temporary block can be released for use in a next data write operation. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Harish Reddy Singidi, Xiangang Luo, Preston Allen Thomson, Michael G. McNeeley
  • Patent number: 10846165
    Abstract: Performing a first set of scans on a memory device in a memory system with a first time interval between each scan of the first set of scans to detect errors on the memory device, determining, from performing the first set of scans, that a rate of errors being detected on the memory device is changing, and performing a second set of scans with a second time interval between each scan of the second set of scans to detect errors on the memory device, in response to determining that the rate of errors being detected on the memory device is changing, wherein the second time interval is different than the first time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin R. Brandt, William C. Filipiak, Michael G. McNeeley, Kishore K. Muchherla, Sampath K. Ratnam, Akira Goda, Todd A. Marquart
  • Patent number: 10789126
    Abstract: A variety of applications can include apparatus and/or methods that provide parity protection to data spread over multiple memory devices of a memory system. Parity is stored in a buffer, where the parity is generated from portions of data written to a page having a different portion of the page in a portion of each plane of one or more planes of the multiple memory devices. Parity is stored in the buffer for each page. In response to a determination that a transfer criterion is satisfied, the parity data in the buffer is transferred from the buffer to a temporary block. After programming data into the block to close the block, a verification of the block with respect to data errors is conducted. In response to passing the verification, the temporary block can be released for use in a next data write operation. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Harish Reddy Singidi, Xiangang Luo, Preston Thomson, Michael G. McNeeley
  • Publication number: 20200110661
    Abstract: A variety of applications can include apparatus and/or methods that provide parity protection to data spread over multiple memory devices of a memory system. Parity is stored in a buffer, where the parity is generated from portions of data written to a page having a different portion of the page in a portion of each plane of one or more planes of the multiple memory devices. Parity is stored in the buffer for each page. In response to a determination that a transfer criterion is satisfied, the parity data in the buffer is transferred from the buffer to a temporary block. After programming data into the block to close the block, a verification of the block with respect to data errors is conducted. In response to passing the verification, the temporary block can be released for use in a next data write operation. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Harish Reddy Singidi, Xiangang Luo, Preston Thomson, Michael G. McNeeley
  • Publication number: 20190354421
    Abstract: Performing a first set of scans on a memory device in a memory system with a first time interval between each scan of the first set of scans to detect errors on the memory device, determining, from performing the first set of scans, that a rate of errors being detected on the memory device is changing, and performing a second set of scans with a second time interval between each scan of the second set of scans to detect errors on the memory device, in response to determining that the rate of errors being detected on the memory device is changing, wherein the second time interval is different than the first time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Kevin R. Brandt, William C. Filipiak, Michael G. McNeeley, Kishore K. Muchherla, Sampath K. Ratnam, Akira Goda, Todd A. Marquart