ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,584, issued on July 1, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Read operations for mixed data" was invented by Scheheresade Virani (Frisco, Texas), Raja V.S. Halaharivi (Gilroy, Calif.) and Ning Zhao (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a memory device may receive, from a host device, a read command indicating data and one or more logical block addresses to be read from a memory of the memory device. The memory device may obtain a memory unit from the memory based on the read command. The memory device may determine status information associated with the one or more logical block ad...