ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,540, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Selective garbage collection" was invented by Antonio Mauro (Giugliano in Campania, Italy), Luigi Costanzo (Trentola Ducenta, Italy) and Nicola Colella (Capodrise, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for selective garbage collection are described. A host system may determine that a battery level is below a threshold or determine whether a power parameter of a memory system that includes a memory device satisfies a criterion. The host system may set a value of a flag. The memory system may perform an access operation and iden...