ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,137, issued on June 10, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Instant submission queue release" was invented by Amir Segev (Meiter, Israel) and Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to receive a shutdown notification, fetch one or more command identifiers from a submission queue of a host device, generate error indications for the one or more command identifiers, and send a completion message, including the generated error indication, for each of the one or more ...