ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,625, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Separate cores for media management of a memory sub-system" was invented by Antonio David Bianco (Boise, Idaho) and John Paul Traver (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for separate cores for media management of a memory sub-system are described. A controller of a memory sub-system can include a first processing core and a second processing core for a garbage collection procedure. The first processing core can perform a first set of one or more operations associated with a read process of a first stage of a garbage c...