US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Namespace range-based memory device compaction" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,116, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Namespace range-based memory device compaction" was invented by Asimuddin Kazi (Naperville, Ill.), Patrick Aaron Tamborski (Chicago) and Parker Swanson (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, at a management device from a first storage device, a first indication of compaction being performed on one or more drives of the first storage device of a plurality of storage devices. The first indication of compaction includes a drive identifier for the one or more drives and namespace range information associated with...