ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,315, issued on May 13.

"Extended memory communication" was invented by Vijay S. Ramesh (Boise, Idaho) and Allan Porterfield (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to extended memory communication subsystems for performing extended memory operations are described. An example method can include receiving, at a processing unit that is coupled between a host device and a non-volatile memory device, signaling indicative of a plurality of operations to be performed on data written to or read from the non-volatile memory device. The method can further include performing, at the processing unit...