ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,108, issued on July 29, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Optimized host-side storage queues" was invented by Tim Rausch (Issaquah, Wash.), Andrew Kent Warfield (Vancouver, Canada), Martine Bruce Wedlake (Kent, Wash.), Andrew C Schleit (Seattle) and Joshua John Buergel (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implementing optimized host-side device-specific queues for a storage device are described. A host system may implement a host-side queue for a storage device that is optimized using device-specific parameters. When an access request to the storage device is received, the request may be ...