ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,614, issued on July 1, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Dynamic rain for zoned storage systems" was invented by Luca Bert (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure configure a system component, such as memory sub-system controller, to dynamically generate Redundant Array of Independent Nodes (RAIN) parity information for zone-based memory allocations. The RAIN parity information is generated for a given zone or set of zones on the basis of whether the given zone or set of zones satisfy a zone completeness criterion. The zone completeness criterion can represent a specifie...