ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,668, issued on July 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Memory sub-systems with separate paths for applications to access memory cells" was invented by Saideep Tiku (Folsom, Calif.) and Poorna Kale (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory sub-system operable to balance the performance goals of different types of applications. For example, first requests generated by a first type of applications running in a host system to access a storage medium of a memory sub-system can be identified and placed in a first queue. Second requests generated by a second type of applications running in the host sys...