ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,131, issued on Feb. 25.
"Controller command scheduling in a memory system to increase command bus utilization" was invented by Trevor Conrad Meyerowitz (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Dhawal Bavishi (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first command is scheduled on a command bus, where the first command requires use of a data bus resource at a first time period after scheduling the first command. Prior to the first time period, a second command is identified according to a scheduling policy. A determination is made whether scheduling the second command on the command bus will cause a conflict in usage of the at least one data...