ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,650, issued on July 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Expander device channel locking for a memory device" was invented by Gyan Prakash (Bangalore, India) and Leonid Minz (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a memory device interface, a signal at a front side of a command enable channel from a host, locking, by the memory device interface, a back side of a command enable channel in response to the signal, receiving, by the memory device interface, the command at a data channel from the host, and unlocking, by the memory device interface, the back side of the comm...