ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,965, issued on June 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Efficient data access for accelerated administrative commands" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Executing administrative (admin) commands typically involves low performance by default. Some admin commands involve accessing memory and utilizing additional resources for improved performance, such as how input/output (I/O) commands are executed. For those admin commands that are executed with improved performance, the admin commands can be modified such that the modified admin commands are executed simila...