US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Sept. 29 for "Optimized garbage collection" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,696, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optimized garbage collection" was invented by Nigel Horspool (Great Missenden, Great Britain) and Brian Clarke (Berks, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for writing data to a solid-state drive (SSD) configured to store data in a plurality of memory dies each comprising a plurality of memory blocks. The plurality of memory blocks are logically organized as a plurality of superblocks. The method is performed by a controller in communication with the plurality of memory dies. The method comprises associating a superblock of the plurality of superblocks ...