ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,710, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Techniques for sequential access operations" was invented by Giuseppe Cariello (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for sequential access operations are described. In some cases, a memory system may be configured to suppress storing a checkpoint while in a sequential write mode. While in the sequential write mode, the memory system may initiate and store a first a checkpoint, along with an indication that the checkpoint was stored as part of the sequential write mode. Subsequently, the memory system may i...