ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,942, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).
"Controller and control method" was invented by Yoshihiro Ohba (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoya Sanuki (Yokkaichi Mie, Japan) and Takeshi Ishihara (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a controller includes a first interface, a second interface, a virtual register table, a memory management unit and a calculation processing unit. The first interface receives an I/O command from a host. The second interface transmits and receives first host data to and from a storage. The virtual register table has a virtual address specified ...