US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Enhanced read cache for stream switching in storage device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,047, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Enhanced read cache for stream switching in storage device" was invented by Sangyun Jung (YongIn, South Korea), Minwoo Lee (Hwasung, South Korea) and Minyoung Kim (Suwon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a data storage device, a controller can efficiently allocate a limited cache space to service multiple data streams. In one or more examples, in response to receiving a first read command for a first stream, the controller may respond to read commands for the first stream based on prefetching data for the first stream using buffers. Wh...