US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on May 13 for "Resumption of program or erase operations in memory" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,332, issued on May 13, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Resumption of program or erase operations in memory" was invented by Eric N. Lee (San Jose, Calif.) and Dheeraj Srinivasan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory component and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory component, to send a read command to the memory component while a program or erase operation being executed by the memory component is suspended. The processing device, operatively coupled with the memory component, can then send an auto resume command to the memory component to automaticall...