US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on June 17 for "Dynamic command extension for a memory sub-system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,374, issued on June 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Dynamic command extension for a memory sub-system" was invented by James Ruane (San Jose, Calif.) and Robert W. Strong (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device is configured to process an initial set of command types. A command extension module and a digital signature are received. The digital signature is generated based on the command extension module using a private key of a key pair. The command extension module, once installed by the processing device, enables the processing device to process a new command type that is not i...