ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,984, issued on May 26, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Shared memory snapshots" was invented by John Groves (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a memory device and a processing device operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform operations including recording, in a change log associated with a snapshot of a data object, an entry reflecting a change made by a first host application to the data object, wherein the entry contains information reflecting a current state of a part of the data object; receiving a request to read the part of the data object; determining whether ...