ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,360, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Two-stage voltage calibration upon power-up of memory device" was invented by Steven Michael Kientz (Westminster, Colo.) and Chia-Yu Kuo (Hukou Town, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of two-stage voltage calibration upon power-up of a memory device comprises: identifying a set of memory pages that have been programmed within a time window; responsive to detecting a power up event, performing a first calibration operation with respect to the set of memory pages to determine a first value of a data state metric; identifying, among a p...