ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,961, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Adaptive host memory buffer traffic control based on real time feedback" was invented by Michael Ionin (Rehovot, Israel), Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel) and Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Boot code is loaded to the data storage device controller in a flexible manner by being able to receive chunks of the boot code from two separate locations, the host memory buffer (HMB) and the memory device, which may be a NAND device. Part of the boot code may be received from the HMB and another part of the boot code may be ...