ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,090, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Dynamic garbage collection operations" was invented by Oleg Kragel (San Jose, Calif.), Chaoyang Wang (San Ramon, Calif.) and Hongmei Xie (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods and apparatuses for dynamically enabling and disabling garbage collection operations during periods of burst in host command activity. Host command latency is monitored during operation of a data storage device. During normal operation, host data is stored in host blocks in a memory of the data storage device. During periods of burst, the host comm...