ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,970, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Unmap backlog in a memory system" was invented by Huachen Li (Shanghai), Xu Zhang (Shanghai), Xing Wang (Shanghai), Guan Zhong Wang (Shanghai), Tian Liang (Shanghai) and Junjun Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for unmap backlog in a memory system are described. A memory system may be configured to support receiving an unmap command from a host system and signaling, to the host system, an indication that the unmap command has been processed (e.g., handled, acknowledged). In response to the unmap command, the memor...