ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,127, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory device heating in cold environments" was invented by Christopher Joseph Bueb (Folsom, Calif.), Poorna Kale (Folsom, Calif.) and Aravind Ramamoorthy (Rocklin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for memory device heating in cold environments are described. A memory system may use system components to accelerate the heating of a non-volatile memory device that stores boot data associated with a boot up procedure at a host system. For example, the memory system may determine that a temperature associated with the memory...