ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,117, issued on March 25, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Secure command memory buffer transfers in a low trust environment" was invented by Phillip R. Colline (Tustin, Calif.), Timothy Ted Walker (Longmont, Colo.), Steven Williams (Longmont, Colo.), Hemant Vitthalrao Mane (Pune, India) and Jason Matthew Feist (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for executing controller memory buffer (CMB) based data transfer commands in a distributed data processing environment. In some embodiments, a storage device having a device controller and a main non-volatile memory (NVM) is coupled to a...