ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,999, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Completion queue handling by host controller for storage device" was invented by Chin Chin Cheng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chih-Chieh Chou (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Tzu-Shiun Liu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host system is coupled to a storage device and manages completion queues (CQs) for the storage device. The host system includes a host controller and memory that stores submission queues (SQs) and the CQs. The host controller fetches a command from a given SQ that corresponds to a target CQ. The host controller saves the comman...