US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on April 21 for "Efficient sequential write gap processing" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,159, issued on April 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Efficient sequential write gap processing" was invented by Amir Segev (Meiter, Israel), Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel) and David Meyer (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gap processing is utilized to reorder out-of-order submissions on the normal submission queue. The controller is able to process logical block addresses (LBAs) that are received through the use of a normal NVMe submission queue (SQ) and a private SQ. The normal NVMe SQ will store the LBAs of commands that may arrive out of sequential order for processing. The priv...