ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,531, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Incremental power throttling on memory system" was invented by Brent Carl Byron (Boise, Idaho), Suresh Rajgopal (San Diego), Shakeel Bukhari (San Jose, Calif.) and Jeonghun Kim (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide for incremental power throttling on a memory system, such as a memory sub-system. In particular, for some embodiments, incremental power throttling is implemented on a memory system using one or more power credit allocations and memory operation progress tracking."

The patent was filed on Nov. 5, 202...