ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,776, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Marvell Israel (M.I.S.L) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Method and apparatus for transferring data between a host computer and a solid state memory" was invented by Ruven Torok (Cholon, Israel) and Efraim Rein (Rahanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bridge receives a first memory access command from a host computer, the first memory access command including an indication of one or more blocks of memory locations in a host memory of the host computer. The bridge device stores the first memory access command in a queue of the bridge device and determines one or more virtual addresses to be use...