ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,061, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"ATS PRI support with implicit cache" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Amir Segev (Meiter, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to improved address translation. Rather than fetching translated addresses using ATS/ATC, a HIM address translation search engine (HATS) is used through implementing the ATC in a layer above per an NVMe command. The HATS is an engine that will monitor pointers with untranslated addresses and will fetch the translated addresses for the pointers. Once the translat...