US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 30 for "Controller for a memory device and a storage device" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,048, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Controller for a memory device and a storage device" was invented by Venkata Kiran Kumar Matturi (Milpitas, Calif.), Tara Gordon (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Carla L. Christensen (Garden Valley, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller can be directly coupled to a storage device and a memory device but not a host. The controller can monitor a plurality of regions of the memory device to determine whether the plurality of regions meet a criterion for fullness and responsive to determining that the plurality of regions meet the criterion, read data from...