US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on June 2 for "Using thin provisioning read zeros to optimize purge operations" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,367, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Using thin provisioning read zeros to optimize purge operations" was invented by V. Meghana (Bengaluru, India) and Prabhakar Ballapalle (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device may reduce overhead associated with executing purge-related operations on a memory device. The storage device includes a memory device including blocks to store data A controller on the storage device may categorize blocks on the memory device based on a thin provisioning read zeros (TPRZ) value. The controller may separate data stored in the blocks on...