Patents by Inventor Peter Feeley

Peter Feeley 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: 9146856
    Abstract: Methods for remapping and/or compacting data in memory devices, memory devices, and systems are disclosed. One such method of remapping and/or compacting data includes reducing a first quantity of write operations that are received from a host to a second quantity of write operations for programming to a page of a memory device that are within the specifications of partial page write operations for the memory device. The second quantity of write operations can also remap data that were originally intended to be programmed to memory address ranges that conflict with a memory map of the memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Lance Dover, Jim Cooke, Peter Feeley
  • Publication number: 20150255163
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems for determining and using soft data in memory devices and systems. One or more embodiments include an array of memory cells and control circuitry coupled to the array. The control circuitry is configured to perform a number of sense operations on the memory cells using a number of sensing voltages to determine soft data associated with a target state of the memory cells, and adjust a sensing voltage used to determine the target state based, at least partially, on the determined soft data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: William H. Radke, Zhenlei Shen, Peter Feeley
  • Publication number: 20150249092
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to memory arrays and methods. One such memory array has a substantially vertical pillar. A memory cell adjacent to the pillar where the pillar has a first size has a greater channel length than a memory cell adjacent to the pillar where the pillar has a second size larger than the first size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Koji Sakui, Peter Feeley
  • Patent number: 9110832
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems for object oriented memory in solid state devices. One embodiment of a method for object oriented memory in solid state devices includes accessing a defined set of data as a single object in an atomic operation manner, where the accessing is from a source other than a host. The embodiment also includes storing the defined set of data as the single object in a number of solid state memory blocks as formatted by a control component of a solid state device that includes the number of solid state memory blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Feeley, Neal A. Galbo, James Cooke, Victor Y. Tsai, Robert N. Leibowitz, William H. Radke
  • Patent number: 9104555
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods and devices for a memory system controller. In one or more embodiments, a memory system controller includes a host interface communicatively coupled to a system controller. The system controller has a number of memory interfaces, and is configured for controlling a plurality of intelligent storage nodes communicatively coupled to the number of memory interfaces. The system controller includes logic configured to map between physical and logical memory addresses, and logic configured to manage wear level across the plurality of intelligent storage nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert N. Liebowitz, Peter Feeley
  • Patent number: 9075765
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems for state change in systems having devices coupled in a chained configuration. A number of embodiments include a host and a number of devices coupled to the host in a chained configuration. The chained configuration includes at least one device that is not directly coupled to the host. The at least one device that is not directly coupled to the host is configured to change from a first communication state to a second communication state responsive to receipt of a command from the host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: William H. Radke, Victor Y. Tsai, James Cooke, Neal A. Galbo, Peter Feeley
  • Patent number: 9076824
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to memory arrays and methods. One such memory array has a substantially vertical pillar. A memory cell adjacent to the pillar where the pillar has a first size has a greater channel length than a memory cell adjacent to the pillar where the pillar has a second size larger than the first size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Sakui, Peter Feeley
  • Publication number: 20150153956
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods for controlling host memory access with a memory device, systems, host controllers and memory devices. One embodiment for controlling host memory access with a memory device includes receiving at least one command from a host and controlling execution of the at least one command with the memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Neal A. Galbo, Peter Feeley, William H. Radke, Victor Y. Tsai, Robert N. Leibowitz
  • Patent number: 9043506
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems for controlling a memory device. One method for controlling a memory device embodiment includes storing device class dependent information and a command in one or more of host system memory and host controller memory, setting a pointer to the command in a register in a host controller, directing access to the one or more of host system memory and host controller memory with the memory device via the host controller; and executing the command with the memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Feeley, Robert N. Leibowitz, William H. Radke, Neal A. Galbo, Victor Y. Tsai
  • Patent number: 9037842
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems for booting in systems having devices coupled in a chained configuration. One or more embodiments include a host and a number of devices coupled to the host in a chained configuration, wherein at least one of the number of devices is a bootable device and the at least one bootable device is not directly coupled to the host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: William H Radke, Victor Y Tsai, Peter Feeley, Neal A Galbo, Robert N Leibowitz
  • Patent number: 9007831
    Abstract: In an embodiment, each block of a plurality of blocks includes a respective plurality of strings of memory cells, where each of the plurality of strings of a block is coupled to a respective select transistor, and wherein each of the select transistors coupled to the plurality of strings of the block is coupled to a common first select line. The plurality of blocks includes N block sizes, where N may be an integer greater than or equal to three. N?1 blocks of one block size of the N block sizes collectively include a first number of second select lines. A group of blocks consisting of a respective block of each remaining block size of the N block sizes collectively include a second number of second select lines that is equal to the first number of select lines or that is less than the first number of second select lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Sakui, Peter Feeley
  • Publication number: 20150078099
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for sensing data stored in memory. A number of embodiments include an array of memory cells, and a controller coupled to the array and configured to sense a page of memory cells coupled to an activated access line by pre-charging only a single subset of a number of data lines coupled to the page, wherein more than two subsets of data lines are coupled to the page and the single subset is coupled to those memory cells storing at least a portion of a single sector of data of the page, and sensing the single subset of the number of data lines to determine the at least a portion of the single sector of data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Koji Sakui, Peter Feeley
  • Patent number: 8918600
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods for controlling host memory access with a memory device, systems, host controllers and memory devices. One embodiment for controlling host memory access with a memory device includes receiving at least one command from a host and controlling execution of the at least one command with the memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Neal A. Galbo, Peter Feeley, William H. Radke, Victor Y. Tsai, Robert N. Leibowitz
  • Publication number: 20140355355
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems for adjusting sensing voltages in devices. One or more embodiments include memory cells, and a controller configured to perform a sense operation on the memory cells using a sensing voltage to determine a quantity of the memory cells having a threshold voltage (Vt) greater than the sensing voltage and adjust a sensing voltage used to determine a state of the memory cells based, at least partially, on the determined quantity of memory cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: William H. Radke, Zhenlei Shen, Peter Feeley
  • Publication number: 20140347932
    Abstract: Memory, memory devices, and a method for a backup sequence are disclosed. In one such memory device, sense circuitry and page buffers are coupled between a three transistor memory cell device and a non-volatile memory device. Enable/disable gates enable selective access to the sense circuitry and page buffers by either the three transistor memory cell device or the non-volatile memory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Koji Sakui, Peter Feeley
  • Patent number: 8897072
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for sensing data stored in memory. A number of embodiments include an array of memory cells, and a controller coupled to the array and configured to sense a page of memory cells coupled to an activated access line by pre-charging only a single subset of a number of data lines coupled to the page, wherein more than two subsets of data lines are coupled to the page and the single subset is coupled to those memory cells storing at least a portion of a single sector of data of the page, and sensing the single subset of the number of data lines to determine the at least a portion of the single sector of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Sakui, Peter Feeley
  • Publication number: 20140281811
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems for object oriented memory in solid state devices. One embodiment of a method for object oriented memory in solid state devices includes accessing a defined set of data as a single object in an atomic operation manner, where the accessing is from a source other than a host. The embodiment also includes storing the defined set of data as the single object in a number of solid state memory blocks as formatted by a control component of a solid state device that includes the number of solid state memory blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Feeley, Neal A. Galbo, James Cooke, Victor Y. Tsai, Robert N. Leibowitz, William H. Radke
  • Publication number: 20140254267
    Abstract: In an embodiment, each block of a plurality of blocks includes a respective plurality of strings of memory cells, where each of the plurality of strings of a block is coupled to a respective select transistor, and wherein each of the select transistors coupled to the plurality of strings of the block is coupled to a common first select line. The plurality of blocks includes N block sizes, where N may be an integer greater than or equal to three. N?1 blocks of one block size of the N block sizes collectively include a first number of second select lines. A group of blocks consisting of a respective block of each remaining block size of the N block sizes collectively include a second number of second select lines that is equal to the first number of select lines or that is less than the first number of second select lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Sakui, Peter Feeley
  • Patent number: 8830762
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems for dealing with threshold voltage change in memory devices. A number of embodiments include an array of memory cells and control circuitry having sense circuitry coupled to the array. The control circuitry is configured to determine changes in threshold voltages (Vts) associated with the memory cells without using a reference cell, and adjust the sense circuitry based on the determined changes and without using a reference cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenlei Shen, William H. Radke, Peter Feeley
  • Publication number: 20140233314
    Abstract: Methods for memory cell coupling compensation and apparatuses configured to perform the same are described. One or more methods for memory cell coupling compensation includes determining a state of a memory cell using a voltage that is changed in accordance with a first memory cell coupling compensation voltage, performing an error check on the state of the memory cell, and determining the state of the memory cell using a voltage that is changed in accordance with a second memory cell coupling compensation voltage in response to the error check failing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Zhenlei Shen, William H. Radke, Peter Feeley