ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,561, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Techniques to improve boot up latency of a memory system" was invented by Deping He (Boise, Idaho) and Xing Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for techniques to improve boot up latency of a memory system are described. As one example of the methods, a memory system may receive an indication to perform a power down operation and write, based on the indication, information corresponding to the power down operation to a first block of memory cells used to store bad block information. Further, the memory system may per...