ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,377, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Reducing storage system latency using interruptible storage operations" was invented by John D. Davis (San Francisco), John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.), Hari Kannan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nenad Miladinovic (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Zhangxi Tan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to read data from a storage system is received. One of an interruptible write operation or an interruptible erase operation being performed on flash memory of the storage system are paused by a storage system controller. A read operation for the request to ...