ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,393, issued on June 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Bosie, Idaho).

"Write buffer extensions for storage interface controllers" was invented by Sharath Chandra Ambula (Mancherial, India), Sushil Kumar (Hyderabad, India) and Venkata Kiran Kumar Matturi (Khammam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for write buffer extensions for storage interface controllers are described. Apparatuses and methods are presented in which a buffer may be used to temporarily store data from an application if the memory device is in an INACTIVE power mode. This may allow the memory device to remain asleep. The buffer...