ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,172, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Retrieval of log information from a memory device" was invented by Shawn Storm (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information corresponding to a health of a memory device or a functional state of the memory device, or both, is written to the memory device. Radio frequency (RF) signaling is used to provide power to certain components of the memory device. Information corresponding to the health of the memory device or the functional state of the memory device, or both, is retrieved from the memory device over-the-air in response to the RF signa...