ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,367, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Intel NDTM US LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Lean command sequence for multi-plane read operations" was invented by Naveen Vittal Prabhu (Folsom, Calif.), Aliasgar Madraswala (Folsom, Calif.), Sandeep Rasoori (Folsom, Calif.) and Trupti Bemalkhedkar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that generates address information for a plurality of planes in NAND memory, excludes column information from the address information, and sends a read command sequence to the NAND memory, wherein the read command sequence includes the address i...