ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,370, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory device active command tracking" was invented by Horia C. Simionescu (Foster City, Calif.), Raja V. S. Halaharivi (Gilroy, Calif.) and Prateek Sharma (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a memory device may obtain, from a host device, a first one or more commands associated with a first identifier. The memory device may maintain a first counter associated with tracking active commands from the host device. The memory device may detect an event, associated with a command, at a first time. The memory device may swi...