US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 21 for "Preemptively warning host of background folding" (Idaho, Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,014, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Preemptively warning host of background folding" was invented by Daniel J. Hubbard (Boise, Idaho), Kevin R Brandt (Boise, Idaho), David Ebsen (Minnetonka, Minn.), Sampath Ratnam (San Jose, Calif.) and Brent Carl Byron (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure configure a memory sub-system controller to allow a host to deallocate data prior to folding operations. The controller generates an instruction to fold data stored in an individual portion of the set of memory components. The controller, prior to executing the in...