ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,453, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for improving endurance of universal flash storage (UFS) devices" was invented by Madhu Yashwanth Boenapalli (Hyderabad, India), Sai Praneeth Sreeram (Anantapur, India), Santhosh Reddy Akavaram (Hyderabad, India), Chintalapati Bharath Sai Varma (Hyderabad, India), Surendra Paravada (Hyderabad, India), Radhakrishna Mugada (Hyderabad, India) and Sang Tran (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for enhancing the endurance of a Universal Flash Storage (UFS) device by providing a UFS pinned region relocation ...