ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,893, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Address translation service for host queues" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instead of using address translation cache (ATC) to translate addresses for host queues, bypass the ATC and directly use translated addresses. When creating the submission queues (SQ) or completion queues (CQ), the controller receives the untranslated addresses from the host, and the device is responsible for translating the untranslated addresses before accessing the host queues. The host queue pointers will directly use the t...