ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,056, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Performing write operations at increased write speeds based on potential events" was invented by Qi Dong (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a memory device may receive, from a host device, a signal indicative of a potential event. The memory device may pause, based on the signal, a background operation of the memory device. The memory device may perform a write operation to write data to the memory while the background operation is paused, wherein a write speed associated with the write operation is an increased write speed,...