ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,998, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Quality of service control for read operations in memory systems" was invented by Dhawal Bavishi (San Jose, Calif.) and Trevor Conrad Meyerowitz (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory system having memory components, and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory components, to: receive read requests from a host system to retrieve data from the memory components; store the read requests in a buffer; track ages of the read requests and priorities specified by the host system for the read requests; and schedule execution ...