ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,633, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"DRAM-less SSD with command draining" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Judah Gamliel Hahn (Ofra, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes one or more memory device and a controller that is DRAM-less coupled to the one or more memory devices. The controller is configured to receive a command from a host device, begin execution of the command, and receive an abort request command for the command. The command includes pointers that direct the data storage device to various locations on the data storage dev...