ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,641, issued on June 3, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using a storage interface protocol to pass parameters used to process data" was invented by Harshitha Begur Mahadevappa (Bangalore, India) and Kumar Ranjan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for application tunneling using a storage interface protocol for an application processor are disclosed. A host interface using the storage interface protocol may connect to a host system, receive a host storage command, and determine from the host storage command a set of application-specific executable parameters and ta...