ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,973, issued on June 16, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Optimized command queues with low latency" was invented by Bryan Dale Hornung (Plano, Texas) and Tony Brewer (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include a memory; and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory, to perform operations including: monitoring a host command stream from a host system to the memory device; determining whether a phase value of a host command in the host command stream is valid; responsive to determining that the phase value of the host command is valid, copying the host command; storing the cop...