US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on April 8 for "Metadata implementation for memory devices" (Idaho, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,623, issued on April 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Metadata implementation for memory devices" was invented by Sujeet V. Ayyapureddi (Boise, Idaho) and Scott E. Smith (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for metadata implementation for memory devices are described. A memory device may read metadata, transfer the metadata to a buffer, and read information. For example, the memory device may receive a read command from a host device to read information. The memory device may execute a first internal read command to read the metadata associated with the information. Upon...