ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,657, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Dynamic and shared CMB and HMB allocation" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a controller. The controller includes a controller memory buffer (CMB). The controller is configured to associate both the CMB and a host memory buffer (HMB) of a host device as a single buffer pool with a plurality of CMB buffers and a plurality of HMB buffers. The controller is further configured to allocate either a CMB buffer or a HMB buffer based on a tradeoff between latency and performance ...