ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,439, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Counter queues for a system on chip" was invented by Leon Zlotnik (Camino, Calif.) and Leonid Minz (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes reading, from a memory array, a first counter identifier (ID) based on a pointer corresponding to an address location in the memory array in which the first counter ID is stored. The method includes incrementing the pointer to correspond to an address location in the memory array in which a second counter ID is stored and reading, from the memory array the second counter ID based on the poi...