ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,088, issued on March 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Commanded device states for a memory system" was invented by Marco Onorato (Villasanta, Italy), Luca Porzio (Casalnuovo, Italy), Roberto Izzi (Caserta, Italy) and Nadav Grosz (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for commanded device states for a memory system are described. For example, a memory system may be configured with different device states that are each associated with a respective allocation of resources (e.g., feature sets) for operations of the memory system. Resource allocations corresponding to the dif...