ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,659, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Storage controller managing completion timing, and operating method thereof" was invented by Sangmuk Hwang (Jeonju-si, South Korea), Jaegeun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hojun Shim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Byungchul Yoo (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage controller includes a command manager and a direct memory access (DMA) engine. The command manager receives a first submission queue doorbell from an external device, fetches a first command including a first latency from the external device in respons...