ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,081, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Systems and methods for servicing memory access requests" was invented by Ramdas P. Kachare (Pleasanton, Calif.), Amir Beygi (San Jose, Calif.), Mohammadreza Soltaniyeh (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dongwan Zhao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing memory devices are disclosed. A device may include a controller, a first non-volatile memory (NVM) device, and a second NVM device. The controller may be configured to: detect a first condition; set, based on the first condition, the first NVM device for ope...