ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,869, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Reliable and efficient boot logical unit access" was invented by Luca Porzio (Casalnuovo, Italy), Rakeshkumar Dayabhai Vaghasiya (Hyderabad, India) and Roberto Izzi (Caserta, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for reliable and efficient boot logical unit access are described. For instance, a memory device may receive a request to write data to a boot logical unit of the memory device. The memory device may update a parameter from a first value to a second value based on receiving the request, the second value indicating a f...