ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,615, issued on May 12, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Boot operations and logical block addresses" was invented by Marco Redaelli (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for boot operations and logical block addresses are described. A memory system may identify logical block addresses (LBAs) that are more frequently accessed during the boot phase relative to other LBAs. Such LBAs may be referred to herein as boot LBAs. For example, the memory system may maintain a counter for each LBA read during the boot phase, which may enable the memory system to track and record the frequency o...