ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,368, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).
"Hotness tracking" was invented by Marie Mai Nguyen (Pittsburgh), Rekha Pitchumani (Oak Hill, Va.), Yang Seok Ki (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jason Martineau (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device is disclosed. A storage medium may store a data, the data including a first portion and a second portion. A cache may store the first portion of the data in a first cache block. A controller may access the data from the storage medium or the cache. A hotness tracker may track a first temperature of the first portion of the data and a seco...