ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,865, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Write booster buffer and hibernate" was invented by Luca Porzio (Casalnuovo, Italy) and Deping He (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for write booster buffer and hibernate are described. The memory system may initiate a first operation to enter a first power mode having a lower power consumption than a second power mode. In some cases, the memory system may determine whether a quantity of data stored in a buffer of single-level cells associated with write booster information satisfies a threshold based on initiating...