ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,193, issued on June 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Method to organize file storage based on semantic search history" was invented by Chao Sun (San Jose, Calif.) and Muqing Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device organizes data on different storage media based on access history and user behavior to accelerate data retrieval. The storage device includes a first storage media and a second storage media to store the data. The second storage media may be accessed faster than the first storage media. A controller on the storage device executes a first data retrieval to ident...