US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on June 16 for "Selecting memory blocks for relocation operations based on commit time" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,969, issued on June 16, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Selecting memory blocks for relocation operations based on commit time" was invented by Amit Sharma (Bengalore, India), Abhinandan Venugopal (Bengalore, India) and Arun Kannan (Bengalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes a relocation analysis system that tracks and/or calculates a commit time associated with one or more memory blocks. When a relocation operation is to be performed, the relocation analysis system selects one or more memory blocks from a pool of memory blocks based on the commit time. The relocation...