US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on July 21 for "Key-group based data management in KV SSD" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,981, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Key-group based data management in KV SSD" was invented by Ramanathan Muthiah (Bangalore, India) and Ramkumar Ramamurthy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instead of using trees to group key values (KV) based on KV information, use host provided information for grouping KVs. In the cases where the host provides KV information, the host determines how to group the information. The controller will then use the KV information to store the KV information in a group. The KVs can be sorted in the group by either size, length, type, etc. of...