ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,965, issued on July 29, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Cleaning detection system" was invented by Lisa R. Copenspire-Ross (Boise, Idaho), Amber Thompson (Meridian, Idaho), Amber Huddleston (Kuna, Idaho), Qianlan Liu (Boise, Idaho) and Charlotte Singleton (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, machine-readable media, and methods related to cleaning detection are described. A cleaning detection system can be used to determine whether there is a need for cleaning by comparing detection inputs, from sensors of the cleaning detection system, that are associated with an updated status of an area ...