US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Aug. 25 for "Virtual queue optimization" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,617, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Virtual queue optimization" was invented by Bhumika Chhabra (Boise, Idaho), Zahra Hosseinimakarem (Boise, Idaho), Carla L. Christensen (Boise, Idaho) and Radhika Viswanathan (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and non-transitory machine-readable media associated with a virtual queue are described. A method can include receiving, by a processing resource, a request from a user to join a virtual queue, adding, by the processing resource, the user to the virtual queue, determining, by the processing resource, a queue optimization based on an...