ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,609, issued on July 1, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Latency reduction of boot procedures for memory systems" was invented by Roberto Izzi (Caserta, Italy), Luca Porzio (Casalnuovo, Italy), Sean L. Manion (Boise, Idaho), Massimo Zucchinali (Torre Boldone, Italy), Bryan D. Butler (Boise, Idaho), Andrea Vigilante (Milan), Marco Onorato (Villasanta, Italy) and Alfredo Palazzo (Monza, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for latency reduction of boot procedures for memory systems are described. A memory system may receive a first command to perform a first reset of one or more compon...