ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,854, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems, methods, and apparatus for copy destination atomicity in devices" was invented by Daniel Lee Helmick (Broomfield, Colo.), Rajesh Koul (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Wayne Moss (Fort Collins, Colo.), Sumanth Jannyavula Venkata (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Young deok Kim (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving, at a device, a copy command, wherein the copy command comprises a first indication of a first amount of source data and a second indication of a second amount of source data, determining, based at least i...