ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,291, issued on May 13, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Programmable metadata" was invented by Sean S. Eilert (Penryn, Calif.), Justin Eno (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Ameen D. Akel (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for programmable metadata and related operations are described. A method may include receiving signaling that indicates a set of rules for transitions of states of metadata at a memory device storing the metadata. The memory device may receive a command from a host device associated with a set of data after receiving the set of rules. The memory de...