ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,153, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Techniques for atomic write operations" was invented by Luca Porzio (Casalnuovo, Italy), Christian M. Gyllenskog (Meridian, Idaho) and Dionisio Minopoli (Frattamaggiore, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for atomic write operations are described. A memory system may determine a set of pages for an atomic write operation in which data associated with a write command is linked together for writing to a non-volatile memory. The memory system may write, to the non-volatile memory, metadata that indicates the set...