ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,017, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Snapshot based memory checkpoint copy" was invented by John M. Groves (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a memory device and a processing device operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform operations of maintaining a set of data items reflective of a state of a host application and receiving a first request to make a checkpoint copy of the state of the host application. The operations can also include responsive to receiving the first request, associating a snapshot identifier with the object identifier, and rece...