ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,321, issued on April 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Page request interface support in handling pointer fetch with caching host memory address translation data" was invented by Raja V.S. Halaharivi (Gilroy, Calif.), Prateek Sharma (San Jose, Calif.), Sumangal Chakrabarty (Campbell, Calif.) and Venkat R. Gaddam (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, performed by pointer fetch circuitry, includes buffering, in a pointer buffer of host interface circuitry, pointers associated with chop commands of a logical block address read command residing in a submission queue of a host system. The met...