ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,066, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Dynamic controller buffer management and configuration" was invented by Karin Inbar (Ramat Hasharon, Israel) and Noga Deshe (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for dynamic controller buffer management is disclosed. According to certain embodiments, responsive to commands received from a host, a controller may adjust one or more partitions of a controller buffer memory to adjust the size of different types of buffer memory. In some embodiments, preset buffer memory configurations may be applied to the buffer memo...