ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,145, issued on June 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Peak power management in a memory device during suspend status" was invented by Liang Yu (Boise, Idaho), Jonathan S. Parry (Boise, Idaho), Fumin Gu (San Jose, Calif.) and John Paul Aglubat (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes memory dies, each memory die including a memory array and control logic, operatively coupled with the memory array, to perform peak power management (PPM) operations. The PPM operations include causing a memory die to be placed in a suspended state to suspend execution of a first media access operatio...