ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,146, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Packed commands for communicating with flash memory system" was invented by Madhu Yashwanth Boenapalli (Hyderabad, India), Sai Praneeth Sreeram (Anantapur, India) and Surendra Paravada (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for memory systems that support packed commands for improved performance and reduced power consumption. In a first aspect, a method of accessing data in a flash memory system includes a host memory controller receiving a plurality of commands from a storage driver for execution by a ...