US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on March 25 for "Systems and methods involving hardware-based reset of unresponsive memory devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,919, issued on March 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Systems and methods involving hardware-based reset of unresponsive memory devices" was invented by Vipul Patel (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Theodore Pekny (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of memory operation that provide a hardware-based reset of an unresponsive memory device are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary system may comprise a semiconductor memory device having a memory array, a controller that may include a firmware component for controlling memory operations, and a reset circuit including power-up circ...