ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,199, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Apparatus with chained storage management mechanism and methods for operating the same" was invented by Jonathan R. Hinkle (Raleigh, N.C.) and Luca Bert (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to serially chained memory subsystems are described. The grouped set of chained subsystems may coordinate internal communications and operations across the separate subsystems within the set. Memory locations for related or connected data may be dynamically computed to be across multiple subsystems to allow for para...