ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,757, issued on July 8, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Excess CMB utilization by storage controller" 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: "A controller memory buffer (CMB) is a portion of volatile memory of a controller of a data storage device that is allocated to a host device for use by the host device. When the CMB is not fully utilized, the controller may determine that at least a portion of the unutilized space of the CMB may be used for non-host data. The at least a portion is based on...