ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,978, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Access heatmap implementations at a host device" was invented by Nabeel Meeramohideen Mohamed (Round Rock, Texas), Steven Andrew Moyer (Round Rock, Texas) and David Andrew Roberts (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for access heatmap implementations at a host device are described. A host device may leverage access operation monitoring that is performed at a memory device, including various examples of signaling and management of monitoring configurations. For example, a memory device may maintain a storage locat...