ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,922, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Adaptive tuning of memory device clock rates based on usage workloads" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel), Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Dudy David Avraham (Even Yehuda, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Different operations have different clock rate bottleneck points. For example, during a read operation, the processors may be the bottleneck whereas other operations will not be bottlenecks. Those other operations can have their clock rates reduced to save power since there is no benefit to ...