ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,901, issued on July 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory performance during program suspend protocol" was invented by Sundararajan N. Sankaranarayanan (Fremont, Calif.) and Eric Lee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed including a processing device operatively coupled to memory device. The processing device perform operations comprising receiving, from a memory sub-system controller, a first read command a second read command; determining that the memory device is in a suspended state; and responsive to determining that a first address range specified by the ...