ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,745, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Suspending operations of a memory system" was invented by David Aaron Palmer (Boise, Idaho), Giuseppe Cariello (Boise, Idaho) and Fulvio Rori (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for suspending operations of a memory system are described. A memory system may be configured to perform a write operation to store data in a nonvolatile memory device, where the write operation includes storing information in one or more latches associated with the nonvolatile memory device; receive a suspend command to suspend performance of ...