ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,069, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Safe area for critical control data" was invented by Aleksei Vlasov (Boise, Idaho), Tim Evans (Boise, Idaho), John E. Lauber (Boise, Idaho), Larry Morkre (Boise, Idaho) and Daniel B. Willie (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes writing information comprising a state of a computing system to a safe area of a memory sub-system that is deployed within the computing system. The method further includes determining that a power event involving the computing system has occurred. The method further includes causing, responsive to the dete...