ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,129, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Pausing memory system based on critical event" was invented by Noorshaheen Mavungal Noorudheen (Long Beach, Calif.), Sudhakar Ravindra Parab (Bengaluru, India) and Sanjay Tanaji Shinde (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure configure a system component, such as memory sub-system controller, to pause memory sub-system operations in response to a critical event. The memory sub-system controller can include a front-end (FE) device that stores critical event trigger data in trigger event logic registers. Upon detect...