US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 12 for "Performance of memory system background operations" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,826, issued on May 12, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Performance of memory system background operations" was invented by Kulachet Tanpairoj (Santa Clara, Calif.), Christian M. Gyllenskog (Meridian, Idaho) and David Aaron Palmer (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are directed to devices and methods involving a host device and a memory system, the memory system comprising a memory controller and a plurality of memory locations. The memory system may send to the host device a first message describing background operations to be performed at the memory system. The memory system may rece...