ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,936, issued on June 30, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Folding operations for improved sequential read performance" was invented by Nitul Gohain (Bangalore, India), Nicola Colella (Capodrise, Italy) and Jameer Mulani (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for folding operations for improved sequential read performance are described. A memory system may perform a single-die access operation to program data to source data blocks of the memory system. The memory system may reorder the data during folding to destination data blocks of the memory system such that a multi-die...