ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,654, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Effective transaction table with page bitmap" was invented by Dongyan Jiang (San Jose, Calif.) and Hongzhong Zheng (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transaction manager for use with memory is described. The transaction manager can include a write data buffer to store outstanding write requests, a read data multiplexer to select between data read from the memory and the write data buffer, a command queue and a priority queue to store requests for the memory, and a transaction table to track outstanding write requests, each write requ...