ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,837, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SILICON MOTION INC. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Handshaking method and data storage system" was invented by Shih-Hsiang Shen (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a handshaking method applied to a data storage system including a host system and a data storage device. The handshaking method includes the following steps: applying for a host memory buffer from the host system by the data storage device; transmitting, by the host system, a command descriptor to the host memory buffer, so that the data storage device performs standalone behavior based on the command descriptor in the host...