ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,115, issued on March 25, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Techniques for temperature-based access operations" was invented by Olivier Duval (San Jose, Calif.) and Christopher Joseph Bueb (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for temperature-based access operations are described. A memory system may be configured to write temperature information to metadata during a write operation. The temperature information may indicate a temperature range within which the memory system may be during the write operation. The memory system may perform a corresponding read ...