ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,596, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Efficient offloading of background operations" was invented by Madhu Yashwanth Boenapalli (Hyderabad, India), Surendra Paravada (Hyderabad, India) and Sai Praneeth Sreeram (Anantapur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods that may be performed by a host controller of a computing device for host performance booster (HPB) mode management. Embodiments may include enabling an HPB mode based on availability of the host controller and availability of a memory device controller. In some embodiments, enabling the HPB mode based on the availability of the host controll...