ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,581, issued on June 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Synchronized request handling at a memory device" was invented by Tony M. Brewer (Plano, Texas) and Dean E. Walker (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for synchronized request handling at a memory device are described herein. A request is received at the memory device. Here, the request indicates a memory address corresponding to a set of cache lines and a single cache line in the set of cache lines. The memory device maintains a deferred list for the set of cache lines and a set of lists with each member of the set of lists c...