ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,000, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Data storage device and method for maintaining a weightage of commands in a plurality of queue layers" was invented by Dinesh Kumar Agarwal (Bangalore, India) and Amit Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device and method are disclosed for maintaining a weightage of commands in a plurality of queue layers. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a non-volatile memory and a plurality of queues. The data storage device determines whether commands received from a plurality of applications in a...