ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,760, issued on March 4.

"Storage traffic pattern detection in memory devices" was invented by Luca Porzio (Casalnuovo di Napoli, Italy), Roberto Izzi (Caserta, Italy), Nicola Colella (Capodrise, Italy), Danilo Caraccio (Milan) and Alessandro Orlando (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing device of a memory sub-system can monitor a plurality of received commands to identify a forced unit access command. The processing device can identify a metadata area of the memory device based on the forced unit access command. The processing device can also perform an action responsive to identifying a subsequent forced unit access com...