ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,669, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Memory device background operation management for low host battery" was invented by Pratibind Kumar Jha (Hyderabad, India), Manish Garg (Hyderabad, India), Ashwini Pandey (Muzaffarpur, India) and Abhishek Ghosh (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a memory system may detect that a host device of the memory system has a low battery status using a comparison of a battery level of the host device to a low battery threshold. The memory system may set, in association with detecting that the host device has the low battery status, a low battery sta...