US Patent Issued to Memory Technologies on July 15 for "Apparatus and method to share host system RAM with mass storage memory RAM" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,670, issued on July 15, was assigned to Memory Technologies LLC (Kirkland, Wash.).

"Apparatus and method to share host system RAM with mass storage memory RAM" was invented by Olli Luukkainen (Salo, Finland), Kimmo J. Mylly (Ylojarvi, Finland) and Jani Hyvonen (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, in one non-limiting embodiment, sending a request from a mass memory storage device to a host device, the request being one to allocate memory in the host device; writing data from the mass memory storage device to allocated memory of the host device; and subsequently reading the data from the allocated memory ...