ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,691, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Memory device background operations" was invented by Marco Redaelli (Munich) and Gianluca Coppola (Saviano, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to memory device background operations. In some implementations, a memory device may receive a background operation command, from a host device, that indicates for the memory device to initiate a background operation for a memory of the memory device. The background operation command may include at least one of an optimization indicator, an idle time indicator, or a power-off...