ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,308, issued on May 13, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Managing a memory sub-system using a cross-hatch cursor" was invented by Steven R Narum (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more data items is received by a processing device managing one or more memory devices partitioned into a plurality of die partitions. The one or more data items is determined to be written sequentially to one or more blocks within a die partition of the plurality of die partitions. Metadata associated with the one or more data items is written sequentially to one or more blocks across the plurality of die partition...