ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,859, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Interrupting memory access during background operations on a memory device" was invented by Sonali Jabreva (Firozabad, India), Sridhar Anumala (Hyderabad, India), Santhosh Reddy Akavaram (Hyderabad, India), Prakhar Srivastava (Lucknow, India) and Manish Garg (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to interrupting memory access during background operations of a memory device. In one example, a host for a memory device includes background operation circuitry configured to permit a background operation by a memory device. The host is coupled to the...