US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Selective scanning of overlap-table in storage memories" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,078, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Selective scanning of overlap-table in storage memories" was invented by Shay Benisty (Beer Shava, Israel) and Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scanning overlap tables for data that is present in cache, but not yet written to the memory device, is time consuming. Performance requirements are increasing as is the size of the overlap table. With the increased size of the overlap table comes a reduction in speed to obtain results of a scan which leads to challenges meeting performance requirements. By providing a cache occupa...