ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,297, issued on June 3, was assigned to Silicon Motion Inc. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Bridge device and method for transferring command data between a host device and a data storage device" was invented by Chen-Hao Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Shih-Hsiang Shen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hui-Lin Liu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bridge device for bridging a host device and a data storage device includes a first controller and a second controller. The first controller includes a first transmission interface. The second controller is coupled to the first controller and includes a second transmission interface. The second trans...