US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on April 21 for "Hard disk drive direct metadata and data caching to host memory buffer via nonvolatile memory express" (Colorado, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,156, issued on April 21, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Hard disk drive direct metadata and data caching to host memory buffer via nonvolatile memory express" was invented by Mohamad El-Batal (Superior, Colo.), Jon D. Trantham (Chanhassen, Minn.), Nicholas James Dance (Boulder, Colo.), Kristofer Carlson Conklin (Minneapolis) and Thomas Roy Prohofsky (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are data processing and storage systems, and methods for use therewith, that make use of a host memory buffer (HMB) partition of one or more host devices to directly cache at-risk data from one or more HMB...