ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,691, issued on July 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory device initialization" was invented by Marco Redaelli (Munich) and Gaurav Sinha (UnterschleiBheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to memory device initialization. In some implementations, a memory device may perform a first initialization for a first set of memory resources, the first initialization being associated with a boot image initialization. The memory device may enable a sideband interface, for data transfer between the memory device and a host device, based on a completion of the first initi...