ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,990, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Lodestar Licensing Group LLC (Evanston, Ill.).

"Adjusting trim settings to improve memory performance or reliability" was invented by Junichi Sato (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device stores data for a host. In one approach, a trim operation is initiated for the memory device (e.g., based on a context that is determined for the memory device). During the trim operation, read and/or write tests are performed on one or more portions of a non-volatile storage media of the memory device. One or more characteristics associated with the memory device are observed during the...