ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,564, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Scalable controller for managing data storages" was invented by Jacob Kappeler Oshins (Seattle), Hari Daas Angepat (Redmond, Wash.), Yi Yuan (Redmond, Wash.) and Vadim Makhervaks (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for providing a scalable controller for managing data storages. A system includes a non-volatile memory controller comprising a set of data queues and a set of administrative queues. The system also includes a set of physical storages communicatively coup...