ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,927, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Internal log management in memory systems" was invented by Kyle Brock-Petersen (Boulder, Colo.), Scheheresade Virani (Frisco, Texas) and Steven Gaskill (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods for internal log management in memory sub-systems. An example memory sub-system comprises a controller managing one or more memory devices. The controller is configured to perform operations, comprising: maintaining a write pointer referencing a next data item position within a log buffer residing on a memory device of the o...