ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,412, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Erase suspend mode during a sanitize operation for a memory system" was invented by Ramkumar Venkatachalam (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for erase suspend mode settings during a sanitize operation for a memory system are described. A memory system may disable automatic suspends during a sanitize operation. The memory system may receive a sanitize command may issue a command to switch one or more memory devices from a first suspend mode associated with automatic suspensions during erase operations to a secon...