Lodestar Licensing Group Assigned Patent

Lodestar Licensing Group LLC, Evanston, IL, has been assigned a patent (12032827) developed by Falanga; Francesco, Pozzuoli, Italy, and Caraccio; Danilo, Buonalbergo, Italy, for “memory devices and systems for host controlled enablement of automatic background operations in a memory device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Memory devices might include an array of memory cells, a register, and a controller for access of the array of memory cells. The controller might be configured to autonomously perform background operations on the array of memory cells in response to the register storing a first value, and prohibit autonomous performance of the background operations on the array of memory cells in response to the register storing a second value different than the first value. The memory devices might be in communication with a host.”

The patent application was filed on 2022-03-11 (17/692241).