ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,676, issued on July 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Hardware based status collector acceleration engine for memory sub-system operations" was invented by Fangfang Zhu (San Jose, Calif.), Jiangli Zhu (San Jose, Calif.), Ying Tai (Mountain View, Calif.) and Wei Wang (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for one or more acceleration engines for memory sub-system operations are described. An acceleration engine can perform one or more validation procedures on one or more codewords of a management unit. The acceleration engine can collect validation data for the management...