ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,691, issued on July 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Indicating valid memory access operations" was invented by Scott E. Schaefer (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for memory operations are described. A command may be received by a memory device and from a device. Both the device and the memory device may maintain counters of valid operations. A request for a value associated with a counter at the memory device may be received from the device. Based on receiving the request, a value of the counter may be transmitted to the device. The values of the counters may be comp...