ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,366, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Servicing read requests" was invented by Jason Raff (Bedford, N.H.), Vikram Prabhakar (Apex, N.C.) and Socheavy Heng (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is directed to servicing a read request. The technique includes establishing a set of write indicators corresponding to a set of storage locations designated by the read request. The technique further includes, while the set of write indicators is accessible to a possible write operation that designates the set of storage locations to be written to, buffering data from the set of ...