ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,680, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"NVMe copy command acceleration" was invented by 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. When a copy command is received by the controller from a host device, the controller reads the relevant data from one or more first locations of the memory device. The data is the processed by an Rx path, where the data is decoded, decrypted, and verified. Rather than providing the data back to the host device or being made available to the host de...