US Patent Issued to SMART Modular Technologies on March 18 for "Systems and methods for memory snapshotting" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,188, issued on March 18, was assigned to SMART Modular Technologies Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for memory snapshotting" was invented by Andrew Mills (Coto de Caza, Calif.) and Torry Steed (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for memory snapshots are disclosed. In particular, a memory device may include a volatile section and a backup persistent storage section. A snapshot manager circuit is positioned between a host control circuit or central processors. This snapshot manager circuit acts as a memory virtualization layer within the memory device and may use a redirect on write type comma...