ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,727, issued on July 8, was assigned to Memory Technologies LLC (Kirkland, Wash.).

"Channel optimized storage modules" was invented by Kimmo Juhani Mylly (Ylojarvi, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage module includes a set of memories. Each of the memories in the set of memories may be divided into a set of portions. A controller is configured to transfer data between the set of memories and a host connected through an interface. A set of channels connects the set of memories to the controller. The controller is also configured to select: a memory from the set of memories, a portion from the set of portions for the selecte...