ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,952, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Power management associated with memory and controller" was invented by Liang Yu (Boise, Idaho), Jonathan S. Parry (Boise, Idaho) and Tal Sharifie (Lehavim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for power management associated with memory and a controller are described. A memory system performs a power management operation that accounts for power usage by any combination of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and memory arrays. The power management operation includes multiple logical unit numbers (LUNs) assigned ...