ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,009, issued on May 26, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Quality of service-enabled storage controller" was invented by Salil Suri (Fremont, Calif.) and Kalyan Prabhu Gonar (Mountain House, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes apparatuses and techniques for implementing a Quality of Service-enabled (QoS-enabled) storage controller. In various aspects, a QoS manager of a storage controller or hardware accelerator can implement credit-based policies for servicing inbound input/output (I/O) commands of a host. In some cases, the QoS manager implements a queue-based credit policy or funct...