ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,133, issued on July 29, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Determining available resources for storing data" was invented by Roberto Izzi (Caserta, Italy), Reshmi Basu (Boise, Idaho), Luca Porzio (Casalnuovo, Italy) and Christian M. Gyllenskog (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for memory operations are described. A host system may obtain data for writing to a memory system. The host system may send, to the memory system, an indication that the data is to be written to the memory system, and the memory system may remove invalid data at the memory system until the memory ...