ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,307, issued on April 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for writing updates to a host memory buffer using assistance from a host" was invented by Dinesh Kumar Agarwal (Bangalore, India) and Amit Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device and method are disclosed for writing updates to a host memory buffer using assistance from a host. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory and one or more processors. The one or more processors, individually or in combination, are configured to: write data in a first loc...