ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,865, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Efficient firmware download operation in storage devices" was invented by Pradeep Sagar Ramachandra (Bengaluru, India) and Suresh Vishnoi (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a firmware image download operation in a storage device includes a storage device controller that performs the firmware image download operation in the storage device. A dedicated host memory buffer (HMB) within a HMB stores a firmware image. Further, re-ordering or sorting of an address list mapped to the firmware image that is not in sequence i...