US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 23 for "Metadata communication by a memory device" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,920, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Metadata communication by a memory device" was invented by Sujeet V. Ayyapureddi (Boise, Idaho) and Matthew A. Prather (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for metadata communication by a memory device are described. The memory device may receive first data from a first memory die of the memory device and second data from a second memory die of the memory device. The memory device may receive first metadata for the first data from the first memory die and second metadata for the second data from the second memory die....