ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,203, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"HMB multi-segment optimal selection" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to improved host memory buffer (HMB) segment selection at the initialization phase. Rather than selecting an HMB segment strictly on one parameter, the selection process will consider multiple factors of the HMB segments. Instead of just selecting a HMB segments based on the size of the HMB segment, the data storage device will perform some basic performance measurements on the provided HMB ...