ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,612, issued on July 1, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory sub-system command fencing" was invented by Dhawal Bavishi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes memory fencing in memory components of a memory sub-system and receiving a first number of commands and a second number of command for execution on a memory sub-system, receiving a memory fencing command associated with the first number of commands and the second number of commands, and executing at least one of the first number of commands before executing at least one of the second number of commands in response to receiving...