ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,193, issued on May 27, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Scheduling of read operations and write operations based on a data bus mode" was invented by Wei Wang (Dublin, Calif.), Jiangli Zhu (San Jose, Calif.), Ying Yu Tai (Mountain View, Calif.) and Samir Mittal (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data bus coupled to a plurality of memory devices is determined to be in a read mode. Responsive to determining that the data bus is in the read mode, a particular read operation identified in a particular memory queue of memory queues that include identifiers of one or more write operations and identifi...