ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,133, issued on April 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Slow charge loss monitor for power up performance boosting" was invented by Nicola Ciocchini (Boise, Idaho), Ugo Russo (Boise, Idaho) and Steven Michael Kientz (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory sub-system having a memory device with a plurality of cells and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device, the processing device to perform the operations of: responsive to detecting a power off event, programming, to a predefined logical state, a dummy subset of the plurality of cells; responsive to detecting a power-...