ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,146, issued on April 21.

"Sequential data optimized sub-regions in storage devices" was invented by David Aaron Palmer (Boise, Idaho), Sean L. Manion (Boise, Idaho), Jonathan Scott Parry (Boise, Idaho), Stephen Hanna (Fort Collins, Colo.), Qing Liang (Boise, Idaho), Nadav Grosz (Broomfield, Colo.), Christian M. Gyllenskog (Meridian, Idaho) and Kulachet Tanpairoj (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including using a memory controller to partition a memory array into a first portion and a second portion, the first portion and second portion having non-overlapping logical block addre...