ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,344, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Submission queue entry age tracking" was invented by Vasili Viktorovich Zhdankin (Prior Lake, Minn.), Kiran Kumar Muralidharan (Karnataka, India), Vipin Kumar Agrawal (San Jose, Calif.), Sumanth Jannyavula Venkata (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Chun-Chu Chen-Jhy Archie Wu (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device is described. A first storage may store a data. An interface may be used to access a command from a host, the command applicable to the data. A controller may execute the command. A second storage may store an entry. The ...