ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,186, issued on June 17, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Systems and methods for continuous in-memory versioning" was invented by Haojie Ye (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and David Andrew Roberts (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques for continuous in-memory versioning are described herein. A memory subsystem includes a memory device configured to store a first data unit, a second data unit, and a third data unit, wherein the first, second, and third data units have a set of physical memory locations on the memory device, and metadata associated with the first, second, and third data units...