ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,871, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Methods and devices for file read latency reduction" was invented by Ramdas P. Kachare (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices are provided in which a controller of a storage device receives a read command including at least a file pointer of a file, from an application at a host device. The controller retrieves a physical block address (PBA) list associated with file data from a table maintained at the controller using the file pointer. The controller reads data from a memory using the PBA list, and provides the file da...