ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,204, issued on April 21.

"Memory mapping for memory, memory modules, and non-volatile memory" was invented by Frank F. Ross (Boise, Idaho) and Matthew A. Prather (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods related to commands to transfer data and/or perform logic operations are described. For example, a command that identifies a location of data and a target for transferring the data may be issued to a memory device. Or a command that identifies a location of data and one or more logic operations to be performed on that data may be issued to a memory device. A memory module may include different memory array...