ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,521, issued on July 1.

"Time delay indication for host in memory system" was invented by Robert Nasry Hasbun (San Jose, Calif.), Dean D. Gans (Nampa, Idaho) and Sharookh Daruwalla (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for a latency indication in a memory system or sub-system are described. An interface controller of a memory system may transmit an indication of a time delay (e.g., a wait signal) to a host in response to receiving an access command from the host. The interface controller may transmit such an indication when a latency associated with performing the access command is likely to be...