ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,172, issued on May 26, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Power control chain" was invented by Leon Zlotnik (Camino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining that a power event involving a memory sub-system has occurred. The method further including in response to the determination that the power event has occurred, generating signaling indicative of performance of an operation to provide power to a plurality of memory components of the memory sub-system, where the signaling indicative of performance includes a power control signal is applied to a first memory component at a first time, ...