ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,691, issued on Oct. 20.

"Access optimization in aggregated and virtualized solid state drives" was invented by Christopher Joseph Bueb (Folsom, Calif.) and Poorna Kale (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid state drive having a drive aggregator and multiple component solid state drives. Different component solid state drives in solid state drive are configured with different optimizations of memory/storage operations. An address map in the solid state drive is used by the drive aggregator to host different namespaces in the component solid state drives based on optimization requirements of the namespaces and based on ...