ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,741, issued on March 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Memory sub-system signature generation" was invented by Kelsey J. Dobner (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving signaling indicative of performance of a shutdown operation involving a memory device to a controller resident on the memory device; initiating a power off sequence in response to the received signaling, wherein the power off sequence includes execution of instructions corresponding to a plurality of routines; and writing data comprising respective shutdown signatures associated with execution of the plurality o...