US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Sept. 23 for "Reading a master boot record for a namespace using a regular read operation" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,008, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Reading a master boot record for a namespace using a regular read operation" was invented by Alexei Frolikov (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus related to memory devices. In one approach, a memory (e.g., NAND flash memory of a solid-state drive) is allocated to a namespace for use by a host device. Master boot record (MBR) data is written by a controller of the memory to an MBR region assigned to the namespace. Read circuitry is configured to read either of user data or MBR data in response to read commands ...