ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,713, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Memory controller with common request buffer" was invented by Lunkai Zhang (Portland, Ore.), Rasmus Madsen (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Martin Lueker-Boden (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit for a non-volatile memory array includes an interface to receive requests, a common request queue connected to the interface and a common request buffer connected to the common request queue. The common request buffer is configured to receive the requests from the common request queue in their received order and buffer unfinished reque...