ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,007, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Memory controller support for mixed read" was invented by Rasmus Madsen (Copenhagen, Denmark), Lunkai Zhang (Portland, Ore.) and Martin Lueker-Boden (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed for controlling reads in a memory device supporting different types of reads having different performance times (e.g., a relatively fast read such as a globally-referenced read and a slower read such as a self-referenced read). The data out latencies of the different read types may be different to accommodate the different performa...