ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,945, issued on June 23, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Managing queue limits for data storage device adapters using controller memory buffers" was invented by Narayan Ayalasomayajula (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and storage adapters for managing queue limits by offloading storage adapter submission queues to the controller memory buffers of data storage devices are described. The storage adapter may receive host storage commands from host devices in one format and provide those host storage commands to the data storage devices in another format for proces...