US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 12 for "Circular buffer partitions" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,820, issued on May 12, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Circular buffer partitions" was invented by Olivier Duval (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for circular buffer partitions are described. A memory device may include one or more sets of memory cells configured to operate as circular buffers. In some cases, upon receiving w rite command, the memory device (e.g., a controller of the memory device) may write data to the circular buffer based on a location of a cursor (e.g., a header pointer). After a write operation, the cursor may be incremented such that, upon rec...